Paper route . All the swings in Harlem . Lost souls . The mathematical function encased inWhere You Are , the tardy offering from the lovely ladies at London - based publisherVisual Editions , wo n’t actually get you anywhere — but they sure are fun to reckon at .
Sixteen creative type bestow a personal entryway for the accumulation in their own unique fashion of modern cartography . The gamut of medium is represented — fabrication ( and non ) , painting , photos , illustration — and each can be experienced in an synergistic net edition as well as a print volume .
I ’m still working my way through the different entriesonlineand imagine exploring thepaper copieswould be a completely different experience . Because : Well , it ’s photographic print , but not print like a traditional Holy Writ . Both versions seem direct to be break in the same way of life you would put your feelers out at a new terminus , in fits and starts , following leads then backtracking — a series of Choose Your Own Adventure tales craft by storytellers with serious artistic tendency and a deep sexual love for design . It makes me overleap the time I traveled with a completely crumple fold - up mapping and a pen , annotating every infernal thing as I went along .
Below are snippet of some of the selections ; crop around , then let your mind wander to your own hallowed spots for a while .
Places I’ve Nearly Been To But Have Not by Adam Thirlwell
On the Pleasure of Maps by Alain de Botton
Map of A Lost Soul by Chloe Aridjis
The Paper Route Empire by Denis Wood
Swings of Harlem by Valeria Luiselli
The Boy Out of Cheltenham by Geoff Dyer
Tablescapes by Leanne Shapton
A Map of Six Impossible Things by Lila Azam Zanganeh
Subtle Nows by Olafur Eliasson
Ghost Pots by Joe Dunthorne
Nature’s Valley by John Simpson
Roads Not Taken by Peter Turchi
How to Be Good When You’re Lost by Sheila Heti and Ted Mineo
The Lunar Hamsters of 8G-932 by Tao Lin
you’re able to purchase a copy of Where You Are for a cool $ 50here .
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