The Mapmaker

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In creating the exhibit "Bonus Map," a sprawling maplike installation composed of hundreds of cloth swatches, Veronica Graham took her cues from classic video games as well Age of Exploration cartography, sharing both the graphical tones and the air of fantasy. Her map also took forever to make, a laborious process she accomplished in an apartment. She silk screened in the kitchen, cut squares next to the stove, used a high-pressure hose for something or other in the shower, and ended up with 2,000 cloth "tiles" stacked in the living room. Then she hung them carefully, precisely, all over the walls of the gallery, creating a patterned "landscape mosaic" that also references Japanese woodblock prints, another popular theme in her work. The tiles, which feature sharply graphical images of nature -- raindrops, mountains, trees -- are to be sold off at $1 per piece, giving people the chance to own a little bit of her imaginary land.
May 8-25, 2008