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What's the Good News

So much going on in the world, and somehow we seem to hear mostly about the negative. What about the positive news? Does it actually outweight the negative?

What's the Good News

What's the Good News

I put pins in the places where I knew of both good and bad news. Several dozen friends and acquaintances also made suggestions for locations. Tiny numbers on the heads of the pins refer to a list, if anyone is really that curious.

As a “retired” professional cartographer, I’m always up for an opportunity to use a map in my art. These globes were very satisfying to make. The “bad” (left) is a splitting map of expected global climate temperature changes, the “good” is a landform representation of our beautiful home planet. A thermometer spirals up the post.

To make it more interactive, I made two bowls of stitched vinyl, where visitors can put in slips of paper of either bad or good news.

  • 17 x 20 x 15 inches (plus)
  • Cotton threads, modified metal balance, vinyl, pins

Details

The temperature is rising

The temperature is rising

The beautiful blue marble of Earth

The beautiful blue marble of Earth

one of the bowls

one of the bowls

Price

$1,050

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Tags

  • map
  • thread sculptures
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