Nikolas Schiller

These come from the website of Nikolas Schiller. Although massively productive (206 maps in 2006), he saves this from becoming a one-trick pony by identifying interesting site (oil refineries, capitols) and by reinventing the process, adding and subtracting elements of the image and disrupting the pure geometry of some to create tensions. This reminds me of Andrea Zittel's guache reflected maps as well as the cut-and-paste distortions of Nina Katchadourian's Geographic Pathologies series. The repetitions create new possibilities and associations but also make the search for the familiar and "correct" dimensions and orientation more intense.