EMP - Playing with mediums

Maps can be simple tools, comfortable in their familiar form, or they can lead to 
different destinations: places turned upside down or inside out, territories riddled with marks 
understood only by their maker, realms connected more to the interior mind than to the 
exterior world.

The map as art' tracks the work of contemporary artists such as ai weiwei, olafur eliasson, 
jasper johns, julian schnabel... exploring the artistic potential found within the practice 
of cartography.

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I have brought loads of different materials to experiment with wide range of ways I could produce a map. I want to see if I can make a map textured. So making it interesting to touch when feeling the map. I have purchased a vast amount of materials, mostly normally used to clean a car. These materials consist of sponges, clothes, sandpaper and netting. I would like not to create a 3D landscape but to add to the dimensions of the map. 

 

 

For example if I was to draw a map with a bath of a birds journey on the map. Making that journey ore 3D/ more prominent to the viewer. I could also play with the idea of make the inners of the bird journey on the map 3D.