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Visual Art Top of the List
Posted by Jen Graves on Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 9:36 AM
I constantly have a list of shows I wish I'd seen in my head, and at the top of my current list is this one, at Howard House. Oregon artist Matthew Picton's veiny maps have been regulars at HH over the years, and yet I keep missing them. Not this time I won't. The show is devoted to the task of mapping wars, making them concrete, as if.
The symbols of the two principal power players in the post-war era, Washington D.C. and Moscow, are also included, the former depicted in an imagined future, the latter at three crucial stages of its history: 1808, 1906, and 2007. The state of Israel, perhaps the archetype of geographical trauma, is shown at two of its crucial historical junctures; 1936, 1967, overlaid with a contemporary map of its current borders and delineations.
Here's Moscow (at right) in 1808, 1906, and 2007.
D.C.'s future is made of burnt paper. Below, the complete map and a luscious-looking detail.
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Go! And check out the spaghetti that he makes of the West Bank! Crazy. (Also look for the bug videos, in the back room.)
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