Sohei Nishino makes these beautiful diorama maps of cities showing the major landmarks and beautiful countryside and is put together in a collage. What I find interesting about this work is that it it realistic like a regular map, but instead of seeing useless tops of buildings, you see them at a better angle giving the impression of layering making it seem 3D.
Nishino's technique for acquiring these pictures of landmarks was by walking around and taking the picture himself with his camera. To think of how long it took to get all of these photos and walk around the whole city is astounding and shows dedication to his art.
Map Roadways - Matthew Cusick
Matthew Cusick uses old maps and cuts them out and pasts them together to create highways or modes of transportation for getting places. What I like about the use of maps to create and image is that it makes the highways symbolic and meaningful since maps represent a space that we can inhabit or explore and the way we do that is by driving on the freeway or on highways. It reminds me of a dream I had where I was in China on the run from the police for some reason, and I was driving on the highway really fast and it just kept on turning and turning while at the same time going higher and higher up into the air. I'm not sure what happened next but I always thought of that dream as an exciting adventure, or escape from normal life which is what a vacation should be.
Topographical relief carved into a roll of tape by Takahiro Iwasaki
What I like about this piece is the sheer intricacy of the cuts and ways Iwasaki cut the duct tape to create a 3D landscape. Perhaps this 3D sculpturing has potential in creating 3D stickers, since all you would have to do is cut of the piece of tape the landscapes stuck to and stick it anywhere! Whether or not this is an actual city my best bet is that it isn't, but the fact that it's carved from duct tape makes it awesome.
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