This post is looking at artist Nina Katchadourian. Nina is interesting because she uses a number of mediums to create her art, such as photography, sculpture, video, and paper. I also like her website because you can view her art either by subject matter, or by medium
Maps – This is one of my favorite of her collections. In some piece, she uses paper to create maps of places. In the piece below (left), she actual took a real paper map, and cut away everything except the major highways. Then she put it between two pieces of glass. In the piece (bottom right), she also dissected a map of the roads in Austria. Austria is known as “the heart of Europe”, so she shaped the paper to look like a heart.
Charts and Systems – Another of my favorites. She turns subjects into family-tree like exhibits. She does a family tree of the history of different types of airplanes, postcards, and created an imaginative genealogy of brands that use a person as their trademark, as seen below:
Nina uses creativity and imagination in a number of ways. Her pieces make you think, wow, how did you do that, or makes you smile.
darcierothwell 
The map is so different looking. It reminds me of the veins in the human body. I used to work at a Medical Library and there was a skeleton that was made up of veins and arteries, that’s what the map reminds me of. Great find!