This Friday's Feature artist is Sam Randolph and her series of five laser-cut matte board topographic maps mounted on wood. I love that each color and layer corresponds to a distance above sea level which is consistent throughout each piece. Of course my very favorite is the Hawaii map!
Sam writes:
This series, regarding meticulously created topographical maps, speaks to the lost art of crafted guides. Replaced by the ease of clicking through Google Maps, the atlas is a book that no longer populates the shelves of every household. Though this modern method saves time for both the sender and receiver, intricate hand drawn maps are an art that have consequently became obsolete. The pieces that are being presented today are overwrought, verbose, and entirely unnecessary in construction, but are purposely so in order to point out what is missing in this quick digital age of communication: the obvious handwork of a creator.
Sam writes:
This series, regarding meticulously created topographical maps, speaks to the lost art of crafted guides. Replaced by the ease of clicking through Google Maps, the atlas is a book that no longer populates the shelves of every household. Though this modern method saves time for both the sender and receiver, intricate hand drawn maps are an art that have consequently became obsolete. The pieces that are being presented today are overwrought, verbose, and entirely unnecessary in construction, but are purposely so in order to point out what is missing in this quick digital age of communication: the obvious handwork of a creator.
