![]() For more on another artist who has created a great map featured in Map check out our Olafur Elliason's monograph. And check out the story behind Jasper Johns's Flag here.ģ00 stunning maps from all periods and from all around the world, exploring and revealing what maps tell us about history and ourselves. The uneven, rugged peaks contrast with the uniform grid, reminding viewers of the contrast between the disorder of the natural world and human attempts to systematize and order it through mapping.įor more great maps by expert cartographers, amateurs, artists and others, buy a copy of Map Exploring the World here. Lin imposed a 91 cm x 91 cm (3 ft x 3ft) grid on a section of terrain from the Rocky Mountains, which was then scaled down and sectioned into twenty individual units arranged in a grid with narrow passageways between. Lin transforms data gathered by scientific expeditions into a three-dimensional, suspended-wire line-drawing, enabling viewers to pass beneath the undulating terrain.īlue Lake Pass refers to a specific area of south-western Colorado familiar to the artist from family vacations. Water Line is a scale map of the ocean floor along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge as it ascends to Bouvet Island, one of the world’s remotest places, located roughly 1,600 kilometres (1,000 miles) north of Antarctica. Lin is represented in the book with her 2006 work Water Line and Blue Lake Pass, comprising aluminium tubing and duraflake particle board. For these two installations – displayed as part of Three Ways of Looking at the Earth in 2009 – the American artist used models, grids and topographic drawings as well as more advanced technology (sonar and radar mapping, satellite photographs) to study parts of the world that are inaccessible or impossible to observe in their entirety. ![]() There's also a great interview with the writer of its foreword, here. Lin explores aspects of the natural world through sculpture and drawing, focusing on mapping as a way to translate the enormity of a place to a scale that we can see and understand. And she's just one of the many artists featured in our extraordinarily beautiful new book Map Exploring the World which you can read more about here. Anyone who caught her magnificent Pace Gallery show Here and There a couple of years back in either London and New York can't have been anything but transfixed by her study of the natural phenomena of both cities rendered in exquisite and highly detailed fine applications of silver, marble and wood. But the work of American artist and designer Maya Lin has always been a particular favourite of ours here at. Jasper Johns was perhaps the most famous exponent of the map in art - though Alighiero Boetti probably runs him a close second. Our latest look at an artist from Map Exploring the World making their own innovative and uncharted explorationĪs you doubtless know, maps have always been used for artistic purposes - for no other reason perhaps than their very shape lends itself well to artistic expression and reimagination. The design led Lin to work wave functions into other pieces: Flutter, an installation in progress in Miami, Florida, and Storm King, a wave field she's currently plotting for a 90,000-square-foot site in New York.Water Line and Blue Lake Pass - Maya Lin Installation view PaceWildenstein, New York The Art of the Map - Maya Lin Yet the wave formation responds to the intended function of the site: it incorporates concepts from physics and, of course, makes a good place for students to congregate. Neither is the site of The Wave Field itself perfectly "natural"-it's a plot of lawn sandwiched between campus buildings. ![]() With the fifty grassy "waves" occurring over eight rows, Lin draws from a perspective of nature that's not exactly naturalistic-she settled on the wave form after viewing satellite photography of the ocean-work made possible by the advances in air and space science. ![]() ![]() She renders physics-certainly the hard science fundamental in engineering-through the undulating waves.Īt the root of Lin's design is a naturally occurring oceanic wave phenomenon named after the physicist Sir George Gabriel Stokes. But Lin's also addressed a sort of social landscape by designing the piece to correspond with aerospace engineering concepts. There's obviously the physical landscape into which it's built, a 10,000-square-foot patch of earth. The Wave Field, completed by Maya Lin in 1995 for the University of Michigan, incorporates two landscapes. ![]()
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