Jeremy Wood is a British artist who uses his path as as pencil. He records his route with GPS to draw massive paintings across cities and landscapes. He has worked at many different scales, exploring the possibility that are inherent in walking and paths, in a pursuit variously called “human geography”.
vegas dollar. Las Vegas.
Tic-tac-toe. Hollywood.
Water on Water
Star Flights. Made by carrying GPS and strategically flying across Europe.
Jeremy Woods' bag was stolen:
My bag got stolen in a pub. Inside the bag was a GPS receiver that I’d left switched on.
The bag was handed in at a local police station in the early hours of the following morning.
It was mostly emptied of valuables except for the GPS that was still recording.
The bag was handed in at a local police station in the early hours of the following morning.
It was mostly emptied of valuables except for the GPS that was still recording.
From the GPS data he was able reconstruct what the bag was doing while it was stolen, with entries such as: "[21:21:09] Bag stops in Golden Square where it remains for two hours and forty minutes". He then overlayed the GPS track onto John Snow's "Cholera Map" (the bag was apparently stolen from the John Snow pub).
Image excerpt from "Meridians" a walk through London along the quote:
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
(Herman Melville, Moby Dick)
Check out his site http://www.gpsdrawing.com/index.html
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