To whet your appetite, or to supply an idea of what to do with
'obsolete' paper maps, I've extracted a few statements from the link
below (in the original 'MapHist' posting). Instead of dumping unwanted
paper maps in a skip, why not make friends with an art college? NB
final two paragraphs.
"Artist Nikki Rosato creates intricate portraits by cutting away at old
maps, leaving only the roads and rivers behind like a network of blood
vessels. Rosato uses a Stanley knife to hand-cut away all of the
landmasses between the roads and waterways, and then uses the delicate
paper left to create portraits - some in 2-D and some sculptural pieces.
She first started playing around with maps after finding a box of
vintage maps in a used bookstore at a printmaking conference at Virginia
Commonwealth University. She bought a few and took them home to
experiment with, noticing how there was a parallel between the road
lines and the lines that cover the human body.
Rosato noted that because paper maps are rarely used any more, they are
easy for her to acquire. "For my birthday this year, my mom surprised me
with about 20 pounds of used road maps that she obtained from online
sources such as eBay."
More recently, Rosato - who is studying at the School of the Museum of
Fine Arts in Boston - has been using the cut-away maps as stencils to
aid the creation of large-scale drawings.
Make sure you check out Wired UK's map-tastic gallery of Rosato's work."
Francis Herbert
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The linked article from wired.co.uk deals little with the history of
cartography, but it describes one of the growing number of artists who
seek maps in their many forms as a source or medium for their art.
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/05/nikki-rosato-map-portraits/
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