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episode 22: Anthony Despalins: “I feel this energy when creating impossible landscapes, spaces, configurations.”
Lisbon cartographer and artist Anthony Despalins on using the visual language of French 1:50k topos to create imagined landscapes, a toolkit of pencils, poems, markers, memories and ink, drawing inspiration from the Gironde estuary and Matthew 6:9, sketching entire layouts in reverse on tracing paper, chasing altered states while creating worlds, and “living in every inch of the maps” he draws. See his work at https://instagram.com/the_inland_sea
- 1:50k 1950s French topo example
- Add them to QGIS as a WMS layer
- Em Todos os Jardins, inspired by a Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen poem
- Kishkindha
- Zelenskyy
- Comme Au Ciel
- Matthew 6:9
- Christus statue
- Boire
- Gilles Baudry
- Mon Âme A-T-Elle
- Porque
- Portolan chart
- Mikael Asikainen
- Helen Cann
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