14 May Mind the Map part 2 – the big reveal
Here is my piece that will be in the ‘Mind The Map‘ exhibition. I have blogged about this before and indeed if you hop over to my website you will see the piece. I thought it would be nice to show the piece in a bit more detail here.
The piece is made out of London Tube maps dating from 1987. When I was commissioned by The London Transport Museum I was given a pile of old tube maps to work with. As I went through them I realised there were several printed in 1987. That was the year I moved to London to go to university. My first time living away from home as well as my first time living in London. It was a time of great adventure and change and was also sometimes lonely and a bit sad.
Seeing the tube maps from that time it took me back to that time, it was an almost proustian moment, the maps were like a conduit back to that time. As you can imagine my friends and I spent a lot of time exploring all that London had to offer and I usually had a tube map tucked into my bag to help me get around. You can see me talking more about the piece here.
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(c) Claire Brewster 2011: From a time when everything seemed possible, detail |
I chose flowers and plants as the subject matter as I like the way nature takes over in the city when humans are not looking.
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(c) Claire Brewster 2011: From a time when everything seemed possible, detail |
And finally the full piece
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(c) Claire Brewster 2011: From a time when everything seemed possible |