We create maps to give meaning...Joao Machado

Joao Machado explores maps as a medium like paint, to create a figure a face, a nude...a couple.
See more of his work at www. joao-machado.com.













Nude, 2006









Alfie, 2008












African Dance, 2006

Local Cartographies with artist Maria Kheirkhah

Adults from the Sundial Centre in Hackney worked with artist Maria Kheirkhah on the Local Cartographies project to map significant places and memories of their community.













Using a kilim (a traditional Turkish carpet) as a backdrop to map the area around Sundial Centre, the group collaboratively drew up a map. The kilim was used to reflect the narrative element of the map.

Envisioning Maps, a show from 2008 better late than never

Envisioning Maps was an exhibition at Hebrew Union College in 2008 that investigated the concept of mapping. The maps explore history, getting lost, declaring location, word maps. Per the press info 'the show explores the desire to know wehre one is in a world where we don't know where we are going'.















Venice Eruv, Ben Schacter, 2007

Budapest/Soweto, William Kentridge


















For more information: http://www.huc.edu/museums/ny/exhibits/08/maps/