(via Incredible New Portraits Carved from Old Military Maps - My Modern Metropolis)
Artist Ed Fairburn has recently come out with new works that live somewhere between sculptures and drawings. He’s still using traditional ink to draw on maps but now he’s cutting and layering maps to create incredibly intriguing works. For the piece above, called Stafford Lane, he cut into a reproduced military map of France while, for the two below, called the Western Front Cutout Series, he used old military maps from World War II and then brought them to life by overlaying them on top of colorful North America climate charts. As he states, “The portraits have been framed in such a way to show a physical depth between each layer.”
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invisiblestories:

A chart of part of the Sea Coast of New South Wales, by James Cook (1770)
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coldwindandiron:

I see you Iceland.

^^^
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hellanne:

(by sam.rogers)
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littlemuts:

Map of Tartay by Nicolaas Witsen (1705)
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Canvas  by  andbamnan