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Ben [Sunshine]
Cartographer
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Ethereal Cartography by Ben [Sunshine]

June 24th, 2009 12:27 AM

INSTRUCTIONS: Make a map of something that does not exist physically.

So, this task really leapt out at me as something I wanted to do. I love cartography, and I love trying to conceptualize relationships between different areas of thought. I spent hours coming up with various ideas as to what I could map out--the webcomics of the internet, for example. But I started planning it out, and came up with so many overlaps and intersections that I realized I couldn't possibly draw the map as a two-dimensional piece. The next bunch of ideas all had the same problem--geekery? My hobbies? The various kinds of love? All so deeply interrelated internally, conceptually speaking, that I could never figure out clear divisions or continents within them. Plenty of crazy topography, but not any real sense of layouts.

Then I had a very silly idea. And proceeded to draw it. I'm a little surprised no one else has done this before, because it seems so very obvious!

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An Ethereal World.

An Ethereal World.

I had a lot of fun with it. I tried to draw a linguistic representation of the word--the H is within the T, building up to the central E, which dominates, catching the following R-E-A within its massive bounds. Beyond it, the L trails off into an archipelago. I had been coming up with clever linguistic jokes as names for the various mountains and inland seas, but I realized--such a world is entirely uninhabited, and to name its features would only take away from the ethereal heart of it. So the map goes unlabeled, remaining simply an open expanse of word.



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Terms

lewlesque, word, literal

2 comment(s)

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posted by Lincøln on June 24th, 2009 8:37 AM

I like it. Simple yet elegant.
I would very much like to dive off the cliffs of the E atoll and spend the day exploring the bay of Big E and spend the evening relaxing by the shores of the inland lake A.

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posted by Jennifer Gergely on February 16th, 2010 8:39 PM

Very nice! I love pictures that make use of original typography!