Wednesday 21 March 2012

The Art In Mapping

Dennis Wood

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Wind chimes


In pursuit of a poetics of cartography, Denis Wood has created an atlas unlike any other. Surveying Boylan Heights, his small neighborhood in North Carolina, he subverts the traditional notions of mapmaking to discover new ways of seeing this place, the people who live there, and the nature of “place” itself. Together, these maps tell a story rich with poetic resonance. Individually, each creates an attentiveness to place, attuning the eye to the invisible and overlooked in order to reveal its significance. As he looks for ways to map what has never been mapped or what may not even be mappable.

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Halloween Pumpkins

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Mail delivery route

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underground mapping


 

 

 

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