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    Map km 0

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    km 0 - hand drawn imaginary 1/50,000 scaled map, French style ("type 1922") - ink, water color, oil pastel and colour pencil on paper - 2023

    Meditation on the spaces left in blank in modern cartography.

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    I really love your work ! I don’t know how you achieve such masterpieces, it blows my mind ! I understand it’s a way to meditate for you and it’s just the same for me, when I look at your maps and get lost !
    Thanks for sharing !

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    Quote Originally Posted by - JO - View Post
    I really love your work ! I don’t know how you achieve such masterpieces, it blows my mind ! I understand it’s a way to meditate for you and it’s just the same for me, when I look at your maps and get lost !
    Thanks for sharing !
    Hey - JO - Thank you for appreciating my work. How do I achieve my maps... don't know, drawing techniques : first draft, rough draft , definitive drawing At the beginning there is generally a dream I had as this is the case for this one. In my dream, I was flying above this city, bird eye overview, the citadel was here, the highways there, the sea...

    By meditation, I think I principally mean "(deep) reflexion", "thought about". In this sense, this map is a sort of discurse about blank spaces in modern cartography I would absolutely not be able to express with words.

    But it seems it is also some kind of yantra (support for yoga meditation) : a friend of mine who is used to yoga techniques told me the void in the middle of the sheet causes here anxiety and I thought "perfect, her gaze is vacuumed by the blank space and she feels prevented to appreciate all the details around, so this can actually works as a meditation device."

    Of course, there is some sort of visual evidence as the blank space (which has the shape of a zero) is just the center of the radio-concentric city where all the lines converge.
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    Thanks for your explanations !
    I'm amazed with your drawing skills too : I mean the roads you draw are drawn with a perfectly regular double line. And that requires a level of skill not available to just anyone... It's also part of your talent, and it's admirable.

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    Quote Originally Posted by - JO - View Post
    Thanks for your explanations !
    I'm amazed with your drawing skills too : I mean the roads you draw are drawn with a perfectly regular double line. And that requires a level of skill not available to just anyone... It's also part of your talent, and it's admirable.
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    I'm in awe of your drawing skills! Wonderful work. And thanks for sharing a pic of the print too. I always love seeing maps in the wild!
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChickPea View Post
    I'm in awe of your drawing skills! Wonderful work. And thanks for sharing a pic of the print too. I always love seeing maps in the wild!
    Thank you ChickPea, this is not a print, this is the drawing itself

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    Lovely and impressive work, once again !

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ilanthar View Post
    Lovely and impressive work, once again !
    Thank you

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