Contemporary Drawing: Mapping Portfolio

 

Mapping Portfolio

Memory Childhood Home, 17" x 14"

Response to Memory Childhood Home, 17" x 14"

Art Building Map, 10" x 5.5" x 4"

Paranormal Story Map of St. Augustine, 17" x 15"

House of Loon Lake Podcast Map, 15" x 16"

Vertical Line Map A & Vertical Line Map B, 14" x 18"

Diagram a Movie: Twister, 11" x 14"

STA Post Office Map, 11" x 14"

St. Photios Greek Shrine Map, 9" x 14"

Lightner Museum Map, 11" x 14"

Inspiration Maps:

Bedolina Petroglyph at Valcamonica, 2500 B.C.  –  Memory of Childhood Home

John Held Jr., Map of Americana, 1928  –  Vertical Line Maps A/B

Sara Fanelli, Map of My Day, 1995  –  Response to Memory Map of Childhood Home

Paragraph Discussion

The maps I chose for inspiration are Sara Fanelli, Map of My Day, 1995, John Herd Jr., Map of Americana, 1928,  and just for fun Bedolina Petroglyph at Valcamonica, 2500 B.C.. I picked the first two and saw that the Petroglyph looked a lot like the Memory Map of Childhood home with its simple lines, and was created by trying to remember the area by walking around it as if im drawing my path walking through the house, so I wanted to include it. First map I chose for inspiration was Sara Fanelli’s, Map of My Day, 1995 to inspire my response to the Memory Map of Childhood Home. When I first looked at the book it stood out to me with its saturated colors, use of color blocking in its simple composition keeping it energetic with its childlike expression of line and color feeling messier in a fun way. I decided to make my childhood home response map with blocked layers of color creating the layout of rooms in my home looking from above, inspired by her use of color but instead mapping the change of colors on the walls throughout my childhood. The second map I chose to inspire a map of mine was John Held Jr., Map of Americana, 1928. I was inspired by the lack of color, identifiable text and simplicity of his map. This piece inspired my use of identifiable signs and icons of known places on the routes to school of my classmates. In Held’s map the words across states are repeated just as some fast food or gas stations were repeated in my line maps, so I decided to use only pencil to keep a simple pallet and include some drawings of known places instead of all text for my Vertical Line Maps A & B.