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Making Maps now at makingmaps.substack.com
No map can show everything. Could it, it would no more than reproduce the world, which, without the map, we already have. It is only its selection from the world's overwhelming richness that justifies the map.
Denis Wood, quoted in Peter Turchi’s Maps of the Imagination, p 40
If ever you come upon Denis Wood’s EVERYTHING SINGS: Maps for a Narrative Atlas first or second edition, be in touch. I’d love to have this book.
At this point, wishing I could afford a Denis Wood book, especially Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas Paperback – Feb. 28 2011
Of particular interest...point, line, area.
Fatness. The Rivers Thames and Tiber
Everything Sings
I want this book so badly....do you have a copy you are ready to part with?
Denis Wood & John Fels The Power of Maps
Mapping??
I hadn’t thought of mapping as something apart from strata—Mapping the Strataas a theme for this series seemed like a visual response to what I see out in the environment, the abstraction of physical geography to make paintings. Rocks, arroyos, sedimentation, layering of stuff all becoming somewhat symbolic. I liked that the paintings coming out of that idea had the feeling of geological…
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