Indian "Ledger"

The images are taken from a site that is dedicated to presenting and and preserving Plains art, drawings on paper, from the late 19th century for research and enjoyment.

One of the most beautiful albums:

Plains Indian Ledger Art.Native American art in ... accounting ledgers.'Beginning in the early 1860s, Plains Indian men adapted their representational style of painting to paper in the form of accountants ledger books. Traditional paints and bone and stick brushes used to paint on hide gave way to new implements such as colored pencils, crayon, and occasionally water color paints. Plains artists acquired paper and new drawing materials in trade, or as booty after a military engagement, or from a raid...' via plep

illiterate compositions

Chapter 44 or 78,774 times E is Justin Quinn's remarkable continuation of his transcription of Herman Melville's epic novel Moby Dick into the letter E. The body of work, a combination of graphite drawings on hemp and dry point intaglio prints repeatedly explore chapter 44 of the novel, called "the chart". In this chapter, Captain Ahab's monomaniac quest for the white whale is demonstrated nightly by his compulsive drawing and redrawing of nautical charts. By repeating a spiraling, swirling labyrinthian structure, Quinn places himself in the role of Ahab who continually redraws his charts which travel nowhere and only to go into themselves.

Moby Dick Chapter 54 or 6,618 times drypointDruck/print23 x 28 cmBlatt/paper76 x 56 cm

Justin Quinn. four moby dick chapters. graphite on paper 2005

Chapter 44 or 9,200 times E" (2004), graphite on hemp paper, by Justin Quinn. Image courtesy of MM Galleries

via designobserver

saluting the 'copy goes here' movie by coudal partners.

A Sign In Space

Fish- a designger, as well as Writing Design Criticism

this is a detail from a big poster map remix of Italo Calvino’s A Sign In Space.

'A Sign In Space' was mapped onto a circular chart (which means one has to set him self up-side-down in order to read the story), with peripheral footnotes. certain symbols have been employed to differentiate the two types of notes (as show in the 2nd image)

anyhow the big poster is for download in pdf .

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which reminded me of the Hand-drawn BurningMan 2005 Map (detial) via pasta and vinegar

and greatmap who links to a the gorgeous big map

Collages

Die Wunder Der Natur - Collage made from early 1900s German natural history encylopedias and late 1800s Italian arts journals via nerds eye view

Eclipse from the Moon

Dreams and Nightmares

Italian artist Marco Boggio Sella travelled to Burkina Faso in search of people who had never heard about the moon landing.

He carried with him photographs of the event and textbooks on astronomy. After explaining this most wondrous of milestones to the benighted natives, he commissioned local artisans to create works inspired by their new-found knowledge of space travel.

Their sculptures and fabric pieces, carried out in traditional materials but depicting their fantasies about space exploration.

Personal Mapping

Some lovely findings of personal mapping:

Steve Roden:

Steve Roden. Form -Collage, water color , ink, pencil on found papear 12" x 26"

Form: Collage, water color , ink, pencil on found papear12" x 26"

From Mapping Lucy blog:

read the full research/travel proposal at www.spacesforaction.com

From Mediatinker blog:

Mad Rush to Australia. December 16-17 mapping year 2005 - a personal event calendar.

2005 Heart Map click to enlarge

more maps from mediatinker

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An Inaccurate Map of Charlottesville

Russell Richards is an artist who lives and works in Charlottesville, Virginia. Some of his work is influenced by his love of maps, most notably in the aptly named collection called ‘Inaccurate Maps of Charlottesville’.

via strangemaps

The Mythology of the Inner World

"The idea that our bodies are geographic worlds, came to me one day while I was stretching. I was sitting on one of my art boards, and stretched over my legs, I admired their shape, and decided to trace them. After tracing the shapes of my legs, I looked at the shape and thought it would make an interesting starting point for an art piece. That first tracing turned into a bird! It was that moment that I realized my body was an entire world, with landscapes and stories that wanted to communicate. I eagerly mapped my entire body to discover its hidden world and magical stories. These images became known as landscapes of ‘The Mythology of the Inner World’. Each image has been derived from the body, and represents the ‘Inner World’. "

These life-size collages were created using the body mapping process

Laura Hollick. Inner world