Mapping Me
We often feel that once we determine the thing’s category, then all questions will be answered about it.
Gregory L. Murphy • How We Sort the World: Gregory Murphy on the Psychology of Categories
Everything in the world divided into categories
As a child, art was my favorite pastime, a way to distract myself from what was going on around me, and a way to make others happy. As an adult, art serves an entirely different purpose in my life. I aim to make people feel both uncomfortable and understood. Art is no longer a tool for distraction, but a tool for exposure, leading me to confront my... See more
Artist statement | My Site
Njideka Akunyili Crosby – Inhabiting Multiple Spaces | Artist Interview | TateShots
youtu.beCollecting items of personal history and displaying them: photo albums, fabrics, documenting different plants etc.
Vibrantly patterned photo-collage areas are created from images derived from Nigerian pop culture and politics, including pictures of pop stars, models and celebrities, as well as lawyers in white wigs and military dictators. Some of these images are from the artist's archive of personal snapshots, magazines and advertisements, while others are... See more
About — Njideka Akunyili Crosby
Her layering of different cultural settings become a documentation of her life experience and upbringing
I’m interested in the degree of subtlety behind each synchronisation, and the way in which a completed map behaves more like a portrait when viewed from further away – it’s almost paradoxical that a portrait should lose detail when examined closely
About – Ed Fairburn
Be it on God, guns or Greta, social media offers neat solutions for our messy feelings
theguardian.com
Grayson Perry’s use of maps to show current the current social climate