Very Expensive Maps

Sara Drake: “My brain thinks in 3D rather than 2D.”

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Fremantle-based mapmaker, artist and illustrator Sara Drake on her first globe, her two-year wait list, the challenge of photographing her ultra-detailed 3D maps, and adding to a piece until “someone physically wrestles it out of [her] hands.” See her maps at saradrake.com

  • India map
  • Mexico map
  • Her photographer Henry Whitehead

    • Map artists she likes:

    • Kate Tarling
    • Linda Gass
    • Bodys Isek Kingelez
    • Michele Tranquillini
    • Martin Haake
    • Katherine Baxter
    • Nate Padavick
    • Anna Simmons
    • Tania Willis
    • Joyce Kozloff
    • Helen Cann
    • Janet Browne
    • Chris Kenny
    • Rodica Prato
    • Bek Cruddace
    • Libby Vanderploeg
    • Rohan Chakravarty
    • Sudarshan Shaw
    • Ben Sack

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