These are photos of my latest art project which also happens to be an assignment for my latest graduate class- Art,Education and Contemporary Culture. The assignment was "to map my “personal geography” and/or “other maps of the imagination” in light of the readings and my thinking as I embark on the study of these issues". Our instructor directed us to look at the book "You are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination" by Katherine Harmon and it is a pretty amazing book!
My "map" is a fictional landscape inspired by my love of the fantasy genre of novels and the maps of the worlds within them, satellite imagery from Google Earth/maps & NASA's Earth as Art website and the idea of old battle strategy maps and the models used to represent armies. The map is un-stretched canvas with doweling attached on each end so that it can be rolled up like a scroll for transport. It is meant to lay flat on a table with the models placed on top of it. I used acrylic paint for the map and the models are made of air dry clay (from Crayola!).
It is about the conflict between modernism and post-modernism and how I am coming to better understand and find my place somewhere in these fields of thought. The fact that the "armies" can be moved represents how my place within the ideologies can change and is affected by daily life and the world around me.
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