Topophilia (From Greek topos “place” and -philia, “love of”) is a strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of certain aspects of such a place.
Today is the second of a series of Topophilia Creative Exercises, this one based place and time.
Today’s challenge is to make a map that defines where you live or have lived. Record how it has changed over time. This can be combined into a single image, or in multiples. Your map can be personal or historical, abstract or observational. Artists’ choice to collage, trace, draw, cut, or integrate multimedia. You are welcome to use your memory and other resources for this project, or click here for instructions for how to use Google Earth to view a map over time.
The maps shared here are made by Harold Fisk. Each color represents an old channel of the Mississippi River, dating back 1,000 years or so. The image above shows an image of Google, and then Fisk’s map.
Thank you for sharing your work! I love seeing these artworks online. People who post to Instagram or on Facebook will be eligible to win prizes (see details). No matter where you post, tag us so we can find it #seattleartistleague #salchallenge.
The June SAL Challenge: Creative exercises once a day for 30 days.
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Most of the time when people draw something such as a still life, they draw the objects and then neglect everything around the objects, like the table holding it up, and the wall behind it. A drawing like this shows us a thing floating in nothing instead of an interaction of depth, volume, and surfaces …
In art school, our art history course included a section on German Expressionism, featuring some paintings by Ludwig Kirchner. They looked something like this: Ludwig Kirchner, “Street, Berlin” (1913) I remember not liking them at the time. Expressionism? Everyone’s squeezed in like bristling sardines! The darkness behind the colors, the acidic contrasts, the dampening black, …
SAL Challenge: Topophilia – Place and Time
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Topophilia (From Greek topos “place” and -philia, “love of”) is a strong sense of place, which often becomes mixed with the sense of cultural identity among certain people and a love of certain aspects of such a place.
Today is the second of a series of Topophilia Creative Exercises, this one based place and time.
Today’s challenge is to make a map that defines where you live or have lived. Record how it has changed over time. This can be combined into a single image, or in multiples. Your map can be personal or historical, abstract or observational. Artists’ choice to collage, trace, draw, cut, or integrate multimedia. You are welcome to use your memory and other resources for this project, or click here for instructions for how to use Google Earth to view a map over time.
The maps shared here are made by Harold Fisk. Each color represents an old channel of the Mississippi River, dating back 1,000 years or so. The image above shows an image of Google, and then Fisk’s map.
Thank you for sharing your work! I love seeing these artworks online. People who post to Instagram or on Facebook will be eligible to win prizes (see details). No matter where you post, tag us so we can find it #seattleartistleague #salchallenge.
The June SAL Challenge: Creative exercises once a day for 30 days.
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