19 May
Image of the Week – 59 – Hand-drawn Maps
Apparently, reports the Guardian, “hand-drawn maps are enjoying a renaissance as contemporary artists use their imagination, creativity and humour to breathe new life into the traditional craft of cartography.”
Artists – both famous and amateur – [are] seeking to put the romance back into this centuries-old art form.
The map above, drawn by Liam Roberts, shows my last stomping ground in the UK.
He says that “the tree is drawing water from London’s great giver of life, the Thames, depicted here as part of the underground watertable. Some of my favourite unique and characterful pubs and cafes are represented here either as hanging fruit, or as nests: I thought this made sense as these places can be sources of sweet sustenance, as well as temporary dwellings.”
Anyone looking for old maps of Jakarta, some of which were presumably hand-drawn, check out Bartele Santema’s Gallery.
Mind you, apart from the one of the Transjakarta Busway network, even up-to-date maps are hard to find!
