This is a beautiful project- a mix of map and sculpture that brings a texture to the usual figure ground image of the city…
Matthew Picton is a british-born artist living in Oregon and his worked is influenced by the beauty of lines and formes which are shaping cities.
“Cities are often described as living organisms; viewed as subject rather than object. Matthew Picton engages with this tradition of humanizing the city by deconstructing the clean, uncompromising aesthetic of the cartographic city plan and imbuing it with the unique history and culture of each place.”
© Matthew Picton
San Francisco
From the natural topography to the built environments. For example his series called “City Sculptures” are trying to take a deeper look into the organism of the city which is created by social, political, economic and topographic factors.
© Matthew Picton
Dresden 1940
One of his recent works “Paper Sculptures” are made of paper. But those are not “only” a random paper it is in connection with the history of the city. Those are…
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