daniel belasco rogers
::news::projects::texts::cv::contactthe drawing of my life (2003 - )
I record everywhere I go (outside) on a GPS. I have been doing this since April 2003. My intention is to develop a sense for the drawing I am making across the surface of the earth with my body every time I move. There are technical reasons for why this is not easy in a building but everywhere I go that is in clear view of the sky, I turn my GPS on and begin recording my location.
The initial impulse behind wanting to know what the drawing of my life would look like started when I contemplated leaving London where I was born and grew up and started spending more time in Berlin.
At first I mourned the thought of all that knowledge of how to navigate around London plus all the stories and events that inform how I ‘read’ London being rendered useless in the new city. On further contemplation I realised that Berlin was offering me an option London now denies me – I could chart myself learning about a new city in a way I can’t with London – I could watch myself ‘joining the city up’.
As this practice has grown since those first journeys in Berlin, it has become a data source for everywhere I have been since April 2003. The journeys are either presented zoomed into cities or as whole continents or hemispheres. The practice is one that is constantly developing as the data is being added to and I reflect on the impact of recording every journey I make.
archive of maps
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Small Scale:
- Copenhagen*
- Banff*
- Bristol*
- Dusseldorf
- Gent
- Graz
- Kortrijk*
- Liverpool
- Montpellier
- Nottingham
- Prague
- Zurich
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Continental:
- Europe*
- World View*
*recently updated maps
>> daily practice of map making essay downloadable on texts page
five year drawing berlin 2003 - 2008
four year drawing berlin 2003 - 2007
one year drawing berlin 2008
one year drawing berlin 2007
one year drawing berlin 2006
one year drawing berlin 2005
one year drawing berlin 2004
nine month drawing April - December 2003
five year drawing london 2003 - 2008
three year drawing london 2003 - 2006
all journeys in London from April 2003 until end November 2005
Perth (AUS)
Sydney
Hamburg
The maps below this point are 1/4 the scale of the maps above
copenhagen 2008 - 2009
Banff (CAN) 2008
bristol 2003 - 2008
Bristol 2003 - 2005
Düsseldorf
Gent
Graz 2005 - 2007
Graz 2006
kortrijk 2003 - may 2009
Kortrijk (BE) 2003 - 2008
Kortrijk 2003
Liverpool 2006
Montpellier (fr)
Nottingham (uk) 2003 - 2007
Nottingham (uk)
Prague 2006
Prague 2003
Zürich 2003 - august 2007
Zürich 2003 - March 2006
Zürich August 2003
Miscellaneous
five year drawing europe 2003 - 2008
Europe April 2003 - end 2006
five year drawing everywhere 2003 - 2008
leftmost point is San Francisco, rightmost is Sydney
World - april 2003 - 2006
