Creative Cartography
Exhibit Summary
Time and Change is an exciting new art exhibition dealing with creative cartography. Inspired by maps withdrawn from the ASU Library, students in the Art on Paper course, ASU School of Art and Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts have created an art exhibition focused on time and change. This marks the 10th anniversary of the Creative Cartography Student Exhibitions. Each fall, students have collaborated with the ASU Map and Geospatial Hub to explore maps, connections between art, science and related disciplines, while repurposing maps and paper as sustainable resources for art-making. The exhibition includes both 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional original works of art on topographic and geological maps. A virtual online version of the exhibition is available under ASU Library Guides, Creative Cartography.
Opening Panel
Time and Change - Artwork gallery
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Caitlin R. Breyfogle
CHANGING OF THE SEASONS
AZ map, ink, and watercolor
The changing of the seasons from fall to winter is a remarkable gift from mother nature. The composition captures the myriad of colors of changing leaves throughout the fall, and is accompanied by an original haiku, written by me, that emulates this transition.
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Caitlin R. Breyfogle
THE CONTINUOUS CYCLE OF TIME
AZ map, ink, wooden gears, laminate, and metal
Time is infinite and finite as the same time. How we perceive time and what we choose to do with this gift is up to our own devices.
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Soraya K. Burrow
THE LITTLE THINGS
AZ map, graphite, ink, and acrylic paint
My piece shows the change between night and day and how thunderstorms stay the same, even in those moments the little things such as plant life or the simple shapes of rock formations are a constant beauty that will be here centuries after us. I feel it is important to take time to enjoy the little things in their element and accept the change that happens around them.
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Soraya K. Burrow
THE SIMPLE THINGS
AZ map, styrofoam, acrylic paint, and wire
For my piece I wanted to highlight the slopes of Tucson, Arizona. The prickly pear cactus flower is shown through its growth process from bud to bloom.
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Lila B. Carlson
DEATH AND REBIRTH OF CANIS LATRANS
AZ map, Graphite, and Colored Pencils
My piece shows an Arizona coyote as a pup, adult, and skeleton. The coyote represents the journey the body endures as change takes place.
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Lila B. Carlson
FROM DAY TO NIGHT
AZ map, beads, fishing line, plywood, and paper rolls
My piece is a visual representation of one day. It uses silver and gold beads to measure the transition of night to day and day to night.
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Marisa Dominguez
THE SPIRIT OF MY YOUTH LIVES WITHIN ME
AZ map, watercolor, acrylic paint, and color pencils
My piece uses watercolor to capture a memory, and acrylic paint to represent the present day. Time is passing as the leaves are falling and grass is browning.
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Marisa Dominguez
THE FLEETING NATURE OF LIFE
AZ map, wire, watercolor and hot glue
My piece represents the natural death of a flower. I burned the edges of the petals to resemble the flower’s wilting process, and placed the fallen dead petals at the bottom.
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Mya Frierson
GEMINI
AZ map, watercolor, gouache, and watercolor pencils
This piece depicts two different worlds, the planet Mercury as photographed in the year 2022 vs the year 2000. Using watercolor, I mapped how time affected our view of the first planet in our solar system.
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Mya Frierson
TO GROW
AZ map, cardboard, plastic, wire, play-doh, produce mesh, and tape
My piece depicts the change of a snake shedding its skin. It represents the change of a creature as it grows into a new being.
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Morgan Goodwin
OCEANS OF OLD
AZ map, watercolor, gouache, ink, and gold leaf
My piece sends the map of Arizona back in time: a fantastical reimagining of a time when the desert was covered by oceans (and perhaps the occasional pirate). I used washes of watercolor to hide or accentuate different markings on the map in order to create the illusion of water.
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Morgan Goodwin
OCEANS OF OLD
AZ map, watercolor, gouache, ink, and gold leaf
My piece sends the map of Arizona back in time: a fantastical reimagining of a time when the desert was covered by oceans (and perhaps the occasional pirate). I used washes of watercolor to hide or accentuate different markings on the map in order to create the illusion of water.
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Charles Grimes
FOREST FLOOR
AZ map, ink
My piece examines time in the natural cycle by depicting decaying elements of Northern Arizona’s forests. The artifacts are organized to illustrate the effects of time on ecosystems.
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Charles Grimes
A BRANCH’S EVOLUTION
AZ map, found tree branch, collage
My piece uses the different colors of the map to create a gradation on the natural form of the branch. This piece reflects the changes that occur on a micro-level in nature.
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Kyle McComb
PLAGUE
AZ map, black marker, black ink pen
My pieces plays on the idea of frogs in the desert, one of the plagues experienced by the people of Egypt in the book of Exodus. Using black and white silhouettes on a map of the San Xavier Indian Reservation, I wanted to draw comparisons of Native experiences with colonization as a plague in a more modern time.
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Kyle McComb
INDEPENDENT THINKERS
Folded AZ map
The transformation of a 2D map into a 3D piece of origami physically changes the landscape of the map. By each uniquely patterned and colored frog facing in different directions, my artwork shows how change evolves from new ideas and diversity.
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Mahima Mistry
LIFE MEMORIES
AZ map, chalk pastel, pen, colored pencil
By using chalk pastels to portray a soft and nostalgic feel as a figure ruminates in their past, my piece shows a symbolic depiction of memories over time. I left the map contours in the hair to represent the journey of life as a person grows.
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Mahima Mistry
A HOPEFUL ABOMINATION
AZ map, plastic, polymer clay, acrylic, and cut paper
My piece depicts a caterpillar sculpture with butterfly wings emphasizing how change happens at everyone’s own pace, and not all will turn into a butterfly the moment they embrace change. I use cut pieces of a map to depict how change is a process and a journey.
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Hannah Mohan
HOW THE STARS WERE ALIGNED
AZ map, watercolor, acrylic, gold flakes, colored pencil
This piece symbolizes the astrological conditions on January 4th, 2002, at 2:34p CST. This specific moment in time has some influence on my life and suggests that the positions of celestial bodies, planets, and stars, play a role in shaping my characteristics and life path.
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Hannah Mohan
FROM PLASTIC PERFECTION TO REAL-WORLD REFLECTION
AZ map, cut paper
This symbolizes the shift from the idealized, superficial world of Barbie dolls, known for their perfect appearances, to a more grounded and realistic perspective that encourages individuals to reflect on authenticity and embrace imperfections in the real world. It captures the transition from superficial standards of beauty to a more genuine and relatable representation of individuals and society.
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Xianna Montoya
PLEASE DON’T WAKE ME, I DON’T WANT TO GO/I’M NOT READY
AZ map, gouache, ink, watercolor
This piece is about trying to hold onto time and resist the inevitable. Despite our futile attempts to hold onto what we have, time continues unfaltering.
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Xianna Montoya
EARTHLAND
AZ map, ink, watercolor
This piece is about humans and our connection to the earth. Our bodies expand and deteriorate, just like the earth, but at a much faster speed until we become nature again.
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Nicholaus J. Moore
GRADUALLY EXTREME
AZ map, ink, watercolor
This painting uses the trend of hurricanes becoming more extreme as a metaphor for a person’s views becoming more extreme over time. The eyes of the storm rest on top of the eyes of the subject and represent their radicalization.
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Nicholaus J. Moore
STUNTED
AZ map, ink, watercolor, and cut paper
This piece touches on the feeling of an idealized Christmas that stays trapped in the past. There are many experiences that are so distant from the people we are today that we may never hope to experience them in the same way again.
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Madelyn Oehler
AGING TRANSPORTATION
AZ map, watercolor, ink and colored pencil
My work is showing how your transportation changes as you grow up. Using a city map and reference images from my own life, it portrays my personal change throughout my life
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Madelyn Oehler
CITY GROWING
AZ map, cardboard, and glue
This piece is the view of a growing city over time. This work uses the different colors of the map to show how with time more color was brought into the world.
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Guillermo Pereyra
AMONG THE STARS
AZ map, ink, watercolor, and cut paper
The stray cat is the protagonist in my piece. The cat is overwhelmed with feelings of sorrow and loneliness when a shooting star suddenly appears in the night sky right before the cat’s eyes.
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Guillermo Pereyra
THIS MUST BE MY DREAM
AZ map, ink, watercolor, and cut paper
My piece represents the change that has occurred throughout the course of time. Through a journey of self-discovery and hope, the cat has found true love, thus the wounds of solitude and bitterness have been healed.
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Nicole Ponsart
MAPPING MARK MAKING
AZ map, Arizona pigment-based watercolor and cut paper
This map of the Cave Creek Quadrangle utilizes hand-made watercolor paints collected from rocks and soil from the region. Throughout this exercise of mapping, collecting, and cataloging materials, the artist's understanding, appreciation, and perception of a landscape in the Southwest evolved into a deeper connection with space and time.
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Nicole Ponsart
ELEVATION
AZ map, Arizona pigment-based watercolor and cut paper
This map is an exploration of terraforming, world-building, and mapping out alternate futures utilizing land-based materials derived from Arizona rocks, minerals, and soil as well as retired maps from the ASU Library collections.
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Martin Quantick
FLOW OF CHANGE
AZ Map, Gel Pen, and Marker
My piece presents itself as a flowing river of change. It uses contour lines to create the river, with the cactus in the center representing how all things are affected by change.
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Martin Quantick
FLOW OF CHANGE
AZ Map, Gel Pen, and Marker
My piece presents itself as a flowing river of change. It uses contour lines to create the river, with the cactus in the center representing how all things are affected by change.
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Gabriela T. Salazar
TEMPORADAS
Az map, ink
My piece uses hand carved stamps to show the life cycle of the Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly until right before it transitions. I wanted to let the beauty of Arizona shine through the insects that live in our state.
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Gabriela T. Salazar
EVOLUCIÓN
Az map, wood
My 3D piece demonstrates the result of the Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly life cycle as it comes out of its chrysalis to start its life journey. Insects are at the core of our Sonoran Desert landscape.
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Yu Shao
MAP OF FLOWERS AND LINES
AZ map, ink, watercolor, and cut paper
My creation contains two different and interesting flowers that are repeated throughout the map. The flowers combine well with the lines on the map.
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Yu Shao
MAP OF MOUNTAINS AND ANIMALS
AZ map, ink, watercolor, and cut paper
My 3D map contains mountains, plants and different animals. I want to show both nature and space on the map.
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Lauryn E. Squyres
A BLIP IN TIME
AZ map, fabric dye, graphite, watercolor, ink
This piece provides insight into a “blip” of the history of Chimney Butte and the surrounding land. It brings a perspective into how much the land has seen over time, and that the history of land far outweighs the history of mankind.
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Lauryn E. Squyres
SEASONS
AZ map, acrylic, ink, hot glue, paper
A calendar is a reminder of the changes in months, the holidays, and the colors that come with them, and of course the seasons. What better example of change than the change that comes with the seasons; change that brings weather and life in different varieties, all of which have an effect on the land.
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Erika Valdez
LAYERS OF TIME
AZ map, mylar, acrylic paint, sharpie, and pen
My piece uses color and transparency to highlight the passage of time in a singular place. It shows how a moment in time can be preserved despite advancement.
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Erika Valdez
EVOLUTION OF FLORA
AZ map, glue, cardboard, wire, and acrylic paint
My piece shows how cyclical change occurs in nature, using wire to mimic the wind blowing petals off a flower. The petals are wrapped in a map, representing how all that once grew in the earth will eventually return to it.
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Jeremiah Weisbrod
PRESENCE
AZ map, ink, vinyl
This piece examines how embodiment figures into how we experience time. It uses vintage representations of time keeping, botany and the human body overlapping a topographic map to contemplate how the passing experience of bodily sensation can be conceptualized as embedded in the larger unfolding of nature.
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Jeremiah Weisbrod
EMANATION
AZ map, board, glue, acrylic paint, clay
This piece explores the concept of change through the gradation of color both toward and away from the central point of the composition. I wanted to visualize a spiritual idea by investigating how the manifold world of appearances arises from an undifferentiated source.
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