Kirsten Sparenborg: “I elaborate on the emotion of places when I make maps.”

Very Expensive Maps

Tacoma map artist and chorographer Kirsten Sparenborg discusses her huge body of work in ink and watercolor, her years in architectural illustration, an ill-starred mural commission, making her own pigments out of local rocks, and her next 10-panel 46 sq. ft. project. See her work at turnofthecenturies.com

• New Orleans watercolor block map
• 3x3 ft. Boston watercolor block map
• Ink street map of Baltimore
• Sottile & Sottile, where she made architectural drawings
• Sanborn Insurance Maps
• Ink bird's-eye map of Eastport, Maine
• Cheyenne Mallo’s map ceramics
• Radiant Maps: my backlit ultra-detailed maps

Artists she likes:

• Heather Bird Harris
• Marc Boyson
• Place Value Pottery
• The Lost Borough

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