Elaborate New Portraits Drawn on Vintage Maps by Ed Fairburn | via
Using a wide variety of canvases including railroad blueprints, star charts, geological and street maps, Welsh artist a href=”http://edfairburn.com/”>Ed Fairburn uses addative and subtractive techniques to create portraits that seem pefectly integrated with the topography of streets, mountains and rivers.
It’s been almost a year since we last checked in with Fairburn whose process and approach to creating these stunning portraits continues to evolve. One of his most striking methods is to carefully follow map contours with a pen creating rows of lines that vary by width to create individual forms and shadows. The final portraits are so entwined with the map, it becomes hard to imagine one existing without the other.
The developed film has been corroded by the same chemicals humans have imposed upon the environment being photographed.
“What happens to the initial amount absorbed into the ground? Or by the plants or animals that are there at the spill site? If this is the effect they have on a piece of plastic, what is it doing to our environment?”
“I want to speak to a manager,” the middle-aged woman said in her stern I-used-to-be-a-soccer-mom-ten-years-ago voice, looking down at me over the top of her Gucci reading glasses.
A wicked grin split across my face and the gates of Hell opened up behind me, releasing a gust of hot wind that whipped my apron around my body and forced the woman to shield her face. Demons came forth, dancing around in flames with songs of, “She wants to speak to a manager. Did you hear that? She wants to speak to a manager!” before erupting into earsplitting shrieks of laughter, none louder than my own cackling.
I took in the woman’s look of utter horror before my eyes rolled back into my head and I growled,
Artist Gretchen Röehrs composes ingenious fashion illustrations by models’ silhouette’s and couture garments with colorful food items. The foods are manipulated by placing them carefully, slicing them, or molding them into place to follow the pattern of fabric and figures. The variety of textures are seen in the twisted banana, the layers artichoke, and deeply colorful foods ranging from leafy greens to a vibrant fuchsia.
