meg scheminske
"Wish You Were Here," an interactive project presented in conjunction with ConfluxCity 2009, compared simple, abstract representations of particular places (Google map paintings) with the personal and temporal experience of being present in them.
For this project, I created six 12" x 12" paintings on canvas depicting compositions culled from Google maps (below). Each "location" lies somewhere within the five boroughs of New York City (click a painting to see its Google map location). The sites/compositions for the paintings were chosen solely on the basis of their abstract aesthetics (i.e. I chose sites/compositions that appeal to me on a formal level, not because I know anything about the actual locations).
On September 20th, 2009, I invited New York City residents to journey to one or all of these locations and document what they found there. The results of their explorations will be published in the coming weeks.
For more information on creative maps and psychogeography, check out the "Links" tab on the left.
