Paula Scher’s Maps

details of “Tokyo,” 2008, by Paula Scher“I began painting maps to invent my own complicated narrative about the way I see and feel about the world. I wanted to list what I know about the world from memory, from impressions, from media, and from general information overload. These are paintings of distortions.” — Paula Scher
Since the early ’90s, Scher has been painting colorful depictions of regions of the globe, covered from top to bottom by a scrawl of words (to the left is the details from the 2008 painting “Tokyo”). She has recently published a book of her maps. There’s an interview with her here and large glorious pictures of her maps on her website.