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Gregor Turk: “I always focused on the map’s ability to simultaneously represent and distort reality.”

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Atlanta visual artist, sculptor and “topophiliac” Gregor Turk on walking 250 miles of the U.S./Canada border, creating landscapes with clay, wood and recycled inner tubes, turning Landsat imagery into hundreds of hand-painted ceramic tiles, making 1:1 scale maps, chasing phantom streets, fighting real estate developers’ efforts to erase Blandtown, confusing Beltline tourists with “misinformation” wayfinding maps, and “pushing the idea of what a map can be.” See his work at gregorturk.com

  • “Latitudes + Legends”: 86 feet wide and 18" tall, ~200x handmade ceramic tiles 
  • “49th Parallel”: traveling the rule-straight part of the U.S./Canada border 
  • “Monumap: West Poplar (Saskatchewan)” 
  • “Misinformation”: Atlanta toponymy atop Chicago, San Francisco and New Orleans topography 
  • Rubber maps 
  • Blandtown
  • “Choke II” 
  • Peirce quincuncial projection, rendered in clay 
  • “Phalanx”
  • Andrew Lynch’s “Unbuilt Highways” maps
  • The Bellman's Map from Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark 
  • Lordy Rodriguez 
  • Maya Lin
  • The Center for Land Use Interpretation 
  • You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination  
  • The Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography 
  • Mapping Reality: An Exploration of Cultural Cartographies
  • The Lure of the Local: Senses of Place in a Multicentered Society

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