When Ryan came down about a year ago, he helped me draw part of this world map in a local junior high that has donated one room to be a "friendly space". This space is supposed to be used for resources and information for teens, for leadership activities, and generally to provide a place for recreation. I started drawing this map about a year and a half ago, little by little, mostly with teens that showed up on Tuesdays. Drawing a large world map with the grid method is long and tedious process, and we just got to the painting part this month. When viewing the map, it is good to see it as an exercise in restrained creativity, as opposed to a work of cartography. Oh, and someone should call Alaska to let them know that they are no longer part of the United States (the kids accidentally painted it brown, and the rest of the states purple-gray).
Wow! That is quite an undertaking! Looks great though!
ReplyDeleteHmmm, I see it's still not done....what have you been doing down there? The accuracy and subtle attention to detail to the coastlines of Alaska and Canada is really striking.....it brings to mind Gerardus Mercador himself...
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