Maps with Feelings

I wanted to create a map that showed our humanity and connected us from afar via significant objects, thoughts, and ideas.

Our Haus Ohrbeck 2020 Map, made up of 36 objects sent in by participants. Although they could be arranged in many different ways, this is one way of creating groups of objects. I could have used simply feelings like  Love, Comfort, Gratitude, Prayer, Connection.  The beauty of maps is that the KEY can be very much about what the designer wishes to portray. 

Assembling a high-resolution physical map printed on several sheets of A4 paper.

Inspiration and prior maps that set the scene for the work above. 

The Mappa Mundi. Several stories, myths, and religious events within a map within a cultural context within what was accessible and possible at the time. The Hereford Mappa Mundi dating from c. 1300. It is displayed at Hereford Cathedral in Hereford, England. It is the largest medieval map still known to exist. A larger mappa mundi, the Ebstorf map, was destroyed by Allied bombing in 1943, though photographs of it survive.

Smyrna/ Izmir.  My first map. Reconstruction of my mother’s home town, destroyed by war in 1922.

A map of Istanbul inspired by the places my father mentions in his writings about his childhood in the Polis.

My home town with some lost Catholic churches and mosques or as I imagined them, predating their conversion to Orthodox churches.