DESCRIPTION
Guardians of the world is a 16×14 feet mashup of several mapped areas around the world that I retraced and integrated together
CONCEPT
This project included the San Francisco Bay Area, NYC subway, geological map of Brazil, Vienna tramway system, Princeton campus, downtown London, etc. The result is a low-tech, low-cost disposable map that can be disposed of and reprinted/re-assembled very easily.
This piece also reminds the viewer of the variety of viewpoints from which urban planning, human development and natural conservation are approached by different cultures. The tight integration of all parts of the map in a single print is an attempt at collapsing space and puts forth a fantasist 2D representation of actual physical spaces.
Finally, Guardians of the world is an overexaggeration of a physical object that is rapidly dissapearing, thanks to the advent of general technology, GPS locating systems and satellites.
TECHNOLOGY
About 160 sheets of letter-sized paper, one roll of tape and a cheap printer. The rest was done with Illustrator and Posterizer.
