Piece description from the artist
This is a digital print of the "Davis Square" section of the city of Somerville, MA. Somerville is located north of Cambridge, and in between Charlestown and Medford. Somerville is known for its lively arts culture and its multicultural influences. The image shows the Powderhouse traffic circle at the top center of the image, and Davis Square is shown sightly below that to the left. The image shows the neighborhood around Davis Square up to Cedar Street on the right, Boston Avenue on the top, Alewife Brook Parkway on the left and Beech Street on the bottom.
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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