Anthony Despalins: “I feel this energy when creating impossible landscapes, spaces, configurations.”

Lisbon cartographer and artist Anthony Despalins on using the visual language of French 1:50k topos to create imagined landscapes, a toolkit of pencils, poems, markers, memories and ink, drawing inspiration from the Gironde estuary and Matthew 6:9, sketching entire layouts in reverse on tracing paper, chasing altered states while creating worlds, and “living in every inch of the maps” he draws. See his work at https://instagram.com/the_inland_sea

• 1:50k 1950s French topo example
• Add them to QGIS as a WMS layer
• Em Todos os Jardins, inspired by a Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen poem
• Kishkindha
• Zelenskyy
• Comme Au Ciel
• Matthew 6:9
• Christus statue
• Boire
• Gilles Baudry
• Mon Âme A-T-Elle
• Porque
• Portolan chart
• Mikael Asikainen
• Helen Cann

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