A hemispherical dividing line corresponds to the equator, and top-to-bottom linear divisions correspond to meridians, though fewer than we might find on a globe, such that curved trapezoidal panels are formed. Frame your accomplishments and have pride in your unique story, or gift this wonderful feeling to the people you love. Interestingly, one of Apollo’s less-frequent attributes in classical sculpture is a globe, symbolising his universality (ibid). In this work, the abstract viewpoints discussed here are brought into play together in one space, showing them as abstractions in which the viewer actively participates.

In Google Maps I can zoom in and out, to get a sense of the context of the mapped area, while looking at the painting I am stuck, constrained, with no further information at hand. Remember, if you don’t want to cut up a particular map but want to include it in this project, you can always use a photocopy.Looking more closely at the lake, changing to the satellite view, I find it named ‘Bande Sardeh’, a beautiful, delicate eau de nil and sapphire blues, unlike the bold, electric blue of Kozloff’s painting. That said, another of Jacob’s definitional remarks is more helpful – that the map may be “essentially envisaged as a symbolic mediation between humans and their spatial environment, but also between individuals who can communicate through this visual medium” (ibid, p. This has, in turn, led to my being able to use the idea of the abstract viewpoint as such to examine situations of viewing that are not already understood in this way.

I had spent the past twelve years overseas, teaching expat or host-country communities, so this was a case of reverse culture shock.My students engaged in this project mostly during remote and hybrid learning, and some adaptations for accessibility had to be made. The students responded strongly to Yin’s Portable Cities and were especially fascinated by her use of used clothes. It sounds counter-intuitive but having certain restrictions can actually be quite liberating for an artist. The advantage of the compass paper cutter is that you can cut paper circles of different sizes, but the Fiskar punch is easier to use. These concatenations of place names rely on reading left to right, but in the map we are not bound so strictly to read in a particular way, and so we may also read Congo-El Salvador-Cuba, Sudan-Libya-Iraq-Kuwait/Iraq-Yugoslavia-Peru.

While ‘drone’s eye view’ is already in use in popular and critical discourse, I specify it here in terms of its capacities to visualise landscape, territory and abstract space, and to construct persons and places as targets. The end results were exactly what maps should be: small images representing vast areas of land and water.Among these are maps - an apt choice for any crafter: they're easy to find, often free, meant to be folded, and their colorful surfaces add an allure of travel to every project.

A pristine Estate in the Tyne Valley, and one I’d never heard of, Close House is home to a golf academy and three professional golf courses which are augmented with footpaths, beautiful trees and sculptures. If you need page numbers for referencing purposes, the book is available at some university libraries and most importantly the British Library where it can be read for free if you’re in London. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. It is as a remote reader, then, that I offer a partial reading of Targets, that remains one of many potential readings of the work. I had to assume my remote students had few art supplies, and I couldn’t give effective feedback during their art-making time on Zoom.Anyone who knows me will tell you that I have a terrible sense of direction, so if I can make a map that works for me, I feel confident it can do the job for others.