Very Expensive Maps

Kirsten Sparenborg: “I elaborate on the emotion of places when I make maps.”

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Tacoma map artist and chorographer Kirsten Sparenborg discusses her huge body of work in ink and watercolor, her years in architectural illustration, an ill-starred mural commission, making her own pigments out of local rocks, and her next 10-panel 46 sq. ft. project. See her work at turnofthecenturies.com

  • New Orleans watercolor block map
  • 3x3 ft. Boston watercolor block map
  • Ink street map of Baltimore
  • Sottile & Sottile, where she made architectural drawings
  • Sanborn Insurance Maps
  • Ink bird's-eye map of Eastport, Maine
  • Cheyenne Mallo’s map ceramics
  • Radiant Maps: my backlit ultra-detailed maps

    • Artists she likes:

    • Heather Bird Harris
    • Marc Boyson
    • Place Value Pottery
    • The Lost Borough

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