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- Jerry Gretzinger
- Jerry's Map In the summer of 1963 I began drawing a map of an imaginary city. The work started as a doodle done in the spare time I had while working at a tedious job. I continued to add to that map through the years until, in 1983, I set it aside to put my free time to other use. The Map was stored in the attic of our home in Cold Spring, New York. It gathered dust. My son, Henry, found it one day while rummaging around. He brought it down to me and asked what it was. Seeing it then triggered me to dust it off and continue the project. It now comprises almost 3100 individual eight by ten inch panels. Its execution, in acrylic, marker, colored pencil, ink, collage, and inkjet print on heavy paper, is dictated by the interplay between an elaborate set of rules and randomly generated instructions.
Wonderful!
ReplyDeleteThe details of your mechanism are becoming more clear to me.
I always have more questions for you.
Do you have a Key? Or a page Legend?
and
How big would this map be if fully assembled (as it presently exists)?
Keep it up!
Sorry, Sean, there is no key or legend. Maybe I will work on one! The iconography at this point is all in my head.
DeleteThe Map WILL be fully assembled at MASSMoCA next month and will be roughly 45 feet in diameter. It's not perfectly round, of course, but does form a rough, jagged circle.
Thanks once more for your comments and questions!