Two totally unrelated but interesting uses of mapping and text.
Firstly AYREEN ANASTAS & RENE GABRI
Their combined sketchbooks/mindmaps offer a tantalising glimpse of what ‘graphic research’ paintings might look like.
http://www.tanyaleighton.com/index.php?pageId=189&l=en
This led me to thinking on my interest in Simon Lewtys ‘painted maps’ too. These had a big influence on me when i saw his exhibition at nottingham castle many years back.
Terra Incognita : Castle Museum, sales Nottingham, sickness 3 October-8 November 1992
http://www.artfirst.co.uk/simon_lewty/index.html