Artistic Mapping - need suggestions (be creative...)
Conduct research on a topic of personal interest and present it in the form of a map. Mapping is a convenient way to represent space, information, and/or concepts into a condensed document. While it is generally considered the domain of cartographers and scientific researchers, there are many artists who consider their art making process to be closely related to the process of mapping.
As an artist, your choices of "what to map" are unrestricted. You may choose to map an idea, yourself, a political or historical issue, a material, a space, or even a fictional topic of your own devices.
Consider such possibilities as mapping every scar on your body (as was done by one student-artist) and then consider interesting ways to organize your map so that it will function as an artistic conveyance of information to others. Remember, the purpose is to create art.
I have to write up a proposal of my idea relating to mapping.. so I have no idea what I want to do - I will have to take photographs of something.. as I map something..?
