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Friday Favorite: Tahlia Day

9/2/2011

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This Friday’s Feature artist is Tahlia Day!

I love her cryptocartography and Charted Unterritories! 

She writes:
In these pieces, I begin by covering pieces of paper with random watercolor washes and letting them dry, then drawing and painting over them in many layers of ink, watercolor, gouache, and other media to bring out forms and lines that I see. 

This process has unpredictable results, much like the organic and geological processes that produce continents and islands; the final pieces resemble aerial views of the landscape or maps.

The titles refer to various "un-territories" that exist in the spaces around and outside concrete reality, such as phantom islands created by mapmakers, ancient cities destroyed by cataclysms, fictional and fantastical planets and kingdoms, and places from world mythology; I've also invented my own names and concepts for some of them.
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Agartha: 5 x 7 inches, ink and graphite on paper. Cartographer's Notes: Agartha is a legendary city or colony of the enlightened, said to be located within the hollow Earth and accessed via secret tunnels from the surface.
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The Higher Celestial Plain: 7 x 7 inches, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and ink on paper.
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Bjarmaland: 10 x 9 inches, watercolor, ink, and graphite on cut paper. Cartographer's Notes: Bjarmaland is a northern estuary region named in the Norse sagas as the home of a wealthy trading people. It is thought to have been located in northern Russia near the White Sea.
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Cocytus: 5 x 7 inches, watercolor and ink on paper. Cartographer's Notes: Cocytus, the frozen river of lamentation, is one of the rivers bordering the underworld in Greek mythology.
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Five Lakes Plateau: 5 x 7 inches, watercolor, ink, and graphite on paper.
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Mountains of Madness 3: 4 x 9 inches, watercolor, ink, and graphite on torn paper. Cartographer's Notes: In H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness, a doomed research expedition discovers nameless horrors buried in the Antarctic ice.
To find out more about Tahlia Day, visit her website, connect with her on Facebook, and check out her Etsy shop!

TGIF!
Mary
9 Comments
Kathryn Dyche Dechairo link
9/1/2011 10:41:17 pm

Love these, great feature.

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Marissa link
9/1/2011 11:50:18 pm

This are wonderful. I'm heading off her her website now.

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cynthia eloise link
9/2/2011 12:27:41 am

really unique. love it. thanks for sharing i will check out her other stuff.

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Andrea Thompson link
9/2/2011 10:29:08 am

Wow, these are wonderful, thanks for sharing!!!!!

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Maggie Flatley link
9/2/2011 11:05:29 pm

always inspirational!

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Jingle link
9/3/2011 01:43:15 am

WOW! These are amazing!

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Theresa Huse link
9/3/2011 06:43:59 am

Lovely cryptocartography and charted unterritories! Wishing you a happy weekend of art & hiking!

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Samantha link
9/3/2011 05:40:10 pm

Oh Mary I so love these, so inspiring I shall have to give it a try!

You have a wonderful blog and your furry friends look sooo lovely.

Glad I found you! Sam :o)

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Corrine link
9/3/2011 10:58:12 pm

Hi Mary, Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving such a sweet comment. The blog hop is so fun. I really like your work, maps I Griqua me and your painting are fascinating. Cute doggies too!!!! xox Corrine

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