Tracey – you’re gonna love this.
Susan Stockwell makes (among other things) dresses out of maps. I am in heaven. I love maps with a burning passion.
LOOK at these dresses (2 examples below the fold).
But she also makes amazing maps. I can’t stop looking at them.
Here’s the main page of her site, with lists of her work and current exhibitions.
(Found this artist through Dress A Day, naturally)
These are so cool!! I love maps too – these are amazing – how clever!
You love maps with a burning passion.
With Sheila, you could insert any one of dozens of things into “You love ____________ with a burning passion.” That’s why she’s so much fun. When she goes geek, she goes GEEK.
“Does this topographical map of the Himalayas make my ass look fat?”
“Is that the Horn of Africa on your trousers or are you happy to see me?”
“No I’m not staring at that woman’s body, honey, it just I’m interested in a new route to get to Broadway”…. “No Broadway is NOT a slang for a woman’s, uh, private parts.”
Mere –
I … as you know … have a mortal passion for …
tile.
Thank you, Sheila! I am officially in love with you for posting this site. So. Very. Cool!
I love this description of one of the map dresses:
/Life-size dress made from two World Atlases with Central America fashioned into a shoulder strap and Brazil as the back piece./
It makes me laugh, but also makes total sense to me. Like, naturally, Central America is a shoulder strap.
Her stuff is amazing.
Oh, my gosh! I just saw those tissue paper stack maps! So interesting. I love it when I look at something someone created and just wonder HOW they did it. That whole mystery of the creative process. I am loving this.
Her eyes were Siam
Her nose was Hindustan
And on her knees was Greece
(grease on her knees)
Her back was Brazil
Her chest was Bunker Hill
Her hips they were Con-stan-ti-no-po-ple
Just then, I saw my wife
And to avoid a future strife
I let the rest of the world go by
Old Smothers Brothers song, “Map of the World,” about a girl who came to a costume party tattooed as a map of the world. Not quite the same thing, but the comments reminded me of it.
tracey – I love love love the stacked maps, too.