I love the way she experiments with her personal map collection to express ideas of travel, journeys, exploration and her own personal history. This was the first map work in her series:
She explains that one day she decided to shred an old map to see how she could use the strips creatively. "To me the strips of map are the roadway, the directions for how to get somewhere, the path I traveled, and because I make an effort to make art that refelcts my own life history and emotions it seemed appropriate to investigate where my map collection would take me on canvas and paper."
See even more Jo Reimers' series of map paintings on her art blog here!
TGIF!
Mary