“I began painting maps to invent my own complicated narrative about the way I see and feel about the world. I wanted to list what I know about the world from memory, from impressions, from media, and from general information overload. These are paintings of distortions.” — Paula Scher
Since the early ’90s, Scher has been painting colorful depictions of regions of the globe, covered from top to bottom by a scrawl of words (to the left is the details from the 2008 painting “Tokyo”). She has recently published a book of her maps. There’s an interview with her here and large glorious pictures of her maps on her website.
Santa Fe had the first snowfall of this winter last night. I made sure the bird feeders were full before it got dark. Then this morning, right before dawn, I went outside to listen to the quiet.