today' s maps are very precise and gps makes any kind of orientation almost flawless. it is amazing how much you find on the internet nowadays and how precies everything quite often is: i mean the kidn of house you are living in, the cars in front of the house, the people walknig on the strete. and at the same time the maps are boring, very boring.
i am fascinated by old watercolors, old hand made maps and old landscapes that are often full of atmosphere, like in orhan pamuk' s book about istanbul. i enjoyed travelnig along the hrine and seeing in the hotels where we stayed beautifully made panorama like pictures.
nowadays those pictures are very rare. i do not see them very often, allthough i found techniques to make digital panorama' s made of a number of digital pictures. it keeps me busy. i want to find out how they are made: i mean in what kind of mood the makers were. they did their job, made pictures and made the world avaliable for those who had to travel a lot. their was no gps, there was no telephone, no camera or video and still those maps were made.
i admire those who made the maps. i have to study their techniques and translate those to today' s technology. it is a way of presenating the world which i feel is very suitable to what i have in mind. but there still is to much work. i made a new brochure for the fisherman project today, as a kind of concluding paper which is usefull to make proposals and applications for subsidies. sometimes it would be nice to work full time on those maps. maybe tomorrow.