#map collage

"This collage art piece is part of the "Off the Map" creative study series by Wendy Gold, pairing vintage ephemera and maps to create unique vignettes."

Wendy Gold @wendygoldstudios

A Year Of Maps 2018 has seen the new Worldmapper come to light, which is also why this blog has become a bit more quiet in recent months.

In this piece, I merged two city maps with two distinctly different street organization. One of the maps I used was of Manhattan and the other was of Paris. Unlike Manhattan where the street organization is in a grid formation, Paris's street organization is in a circular formation. After assessing the advantages and disadvantage of each formation as well as the organization of different infrastructures, I merged them into a collage that seems naturally connected as if it was a familiar map and still functions.

map collage

Portion of my Map Collage