Map in One's Mind
- Date:
- 1953
- Medium:
- Woodblock print, ink and color on faux hide
- Dimensions:
- 45.4 × 62.9 cm
- Edition:
- Self-printed
- Source:
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
Description
"Map in One's Mind," from 1953, rendered on faux hide (a material that evokes the mapmaking traditions of early European cartographers), presents the subjective geography of imagination and memory as a visual subject. Old maps — particularly the Portuguese and Dutch charts that opened the world to European navigation and brought those navigators to Japan — used animal skin (vellum) as their medium, and Kawakami's use of faux hide here invokes that cartographic tradition. The "mind map" suggests an interior geography as complex and fascinating as the external world it contemplates.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Map in One's Mind was created by Sumio Kawakami (川上澄生) in 1953.
Map in One's Mind depicts travel scenes and abstract.
Map in One's Mind measures 45.4 × 62.9 cm.