Nothing Indeed!

(via on-display)

“By 2030 China will have 221 cities with more than 1 million inhabitants.”

A print by Mark Andrew Webber from a large-scale typographic linocut of London. Webber carves every letter (in reverse) by hand in order to create a map of the city created from text.

This work reminds me of Concrete poetry and of Guy DeBord’s Derives:

“In a dérive one or more persons during a certain period drop their relations, their work and leisure activities, and all their other usual motives for movement and action, and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there. Chance is a less important factor in this activity than one might think: from a dérive point of view cities have psychogeographical contours, with constant currents, fixed points and vortexes that strongly discourage entry into or exit from certain zones.”

These walks were often recorded psychogeographic drawings which provide an alternative method of mapping cities.