Creative Mapping

I liked the concept behind Jason, Geoff, Alaina, and Maia's mapping project and I thought that the finished product had a kind of splendor; it was cosmic chaos.

On the first critique day, I liked their initial idea. They would plot out the points of certain constellations and find where they landed on a map of the twin cities. Then, they would pick a few of these points and travel there. The goal was to find works of art in and around the area of the point. It was complicated but once it was all worked out it seemed as if it would make sense.

I was impressed with their presentation. Their map was well put together and aesthetically pleasing. However, I felt that some things could have been done to make it a little clearer for the viewer. An explanation of how the stars were plotted out might have helped. It was explained in the presentation of it but for a first time viewer with no background it might be necessary. Also, although it was easy to pick out the subjects that this group chose (per the assignment requirements) it was difficult to see a correlation between those subjects and the Walker. I would have like to have seen the Walker used more effectively.

Ultimately, I feel that with a little more time each of the projects presented at last weeks critique could have been very impressive. As it was, we did what we could and our finished projects are all very interesting.