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episode 4: Sara Drake: “My brain thinks in 3D rather than 2D.”
Fremantle-based mapmaker, artist and illustrator Sara Drake on her first globe, her two-year wait list, the challenge of photographing her ultra-detailed 3D maps, and adding to a piece until “someone physically wrestles it out of [her] hands.” See her maps at saradrake.com
- India map
- Mexico map
- Her photographer Henry Whitehead
Map artists she likes:
- Kate Tarling
- Linda Gass
- Bodys Isek Kingelez
- Michele Tranquillini
- Martin Haake
- Katherine Baxter
- Nate Padavick
- Anna Simmons
- Tania Willis
- Joyce Kozloff
- Helen Cann
- Janet Browne
- Chris Kenny
- Rodica Prato
- Bek Cruddace
- Libby Vanderploeg
- Rohan Chakravarty
- Sudarshan Shaw
- Ben Sack
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