New Maps by Denis Wood: Barking Dogs May Have Names
Today Design Observer posted an excerpt from Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas by Denis Wood along with new maps by Denis—and images of the original survey forms used to collect the data. Design Observer also has some images of those forms which include categories that account for everything from hanging plants, clothes lines, lawn furniture, evidence of children and auto repair, to miscellaneous yard and porch “funk”.
The map of “Barking Dogs” was made using the data collected during the “Sound Walk” map (in Everything Sings), but the map (here below) of “Dogs” was collected separately. One aspect of Denis’s subversion of traditional cartography is to replace the uniform with the individual: just as he photographed the actual pumpkins on each porch for his Jack O’ Lantern map, he locates the dogs, often by name.
Copyright Denis Wood, 2011.
