Maps exist and are very important in make-believe worlds as well. They are often the reason why characters of the story get into trouble with hairy and stinky monsters. But most of the time those maps present less details than the previous ones we were talking about, like the ones of Peru. Many times they simply tell you the name of the place, and add that it is far, far away from anywhere. And this is just a way to make you imagine the landscape. They leave you free to see whatever you want. Are there any trees, or do these places have fish bones growing from the ground? Do flowers in this place smell beautiful or do they fart when people pick them?
Taking maps and then changing them to show what you remember or how you feel about a place, like the artist Georgia Russell and girls from Kensington Prep School did, is a way of creating a map of your own magical place, a very truly personal world which only exists in your own head. Even the people you feel close to – people who share the same taste in books, music, games or your own family – they all have different feelings or thoughts while doing the same thing as you, and this makes your own personal experience and your own ideas so special.
Written by Solee Pierozzi.
This cow miraculously has a map of the world on its body?!
World Cow 1974
Jugoslav Vlahovic
Courtesy of England & Co.
Cap’tain Tartine
After staring at maps, turning them upside down to the point where you feel car sick, let’s do some chemistry: grab an innocent map, tear it up in pieces, place them in your mouth, think of yourself as a cow and chew them for a while. A bowl needs to stand 2 meters in front of you. Now become a llama and show me the accuracy of your spitting talents and spit the balls of map into the bowl. If you don’t want to be a llama you may use a rubber band. (after being a cow and a llama, don’t forget to get back to yourself).