Piece description from the artist
The image shows the area of south of Downtown Boston, in between Chinatown and Dudley Square. Towards the top left of the image, you can see parts of the Back Bay and Back Bay Fens. The triangular shape near the top left (right of the Fens) is the Copley Square/Prudential Center area. Massachusetts Avenue is running at a downward diagonal from there, heading towards the bottom right- first intersecting with Huntington Avenue then with Tremont Street near the center of the image.
The area at the very top right is Chinatown, the road going at a slight curve near the very top right is Stuart Street. The thick black line cutting across the image horizontally near the top of the image is the Massachusetts Turnpike (Rt 90).
The entire area of the South End is shown in the image, with Rt. 93 running down the right side of the image at a slight diagonal. At the very bottom, the road making the "L" shape is Melnea Cass Boulevard.
Jennifer Carland is an artist who works with mixed media to create abstracted versions of aerial views and city maps. The work that she creates is loosely based on real geography and is abstracted so that the shapes, line, and color of the maps are altered to create a unique piece of artwork, showing an artistic representation of a real place.
Jennifer works with a variety of artistic materials and is fascinated by aerial views of the world around her. Each finished piece that she creates is of a map carefully selected for its geographical attributes and visual appeal then altered to create a unique piece of artwork. The finished product is a combination of hand-drawn and digitally altered images with many layers of colors and textures. The focus of her work is on interpreting the lines and shapes of a city map and changing the purpose of a map from utilitarian to conceptual. She intends to make the viewer think about their own place in relation to what is around them and appreciate the beauty in both the built and natural environments.
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