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What is this: By way of barely adequate introduction, I would like to explain myself in terms of this portion of my creation. From an early age I began to dream of places similar, but distant from my own experience. I had traveled enough to know somewhat of the wider world, and was familiar with the various options in transport and urban design--in a personal sense.
I would sit in my classes at school and doodle, making up names of places, giving each a story in my mind, some urban tangle, or provincial watering hole. I would develop ideas for trade, for commerce, and even language and culture. Whenever a ‘teacher’ didn’t crumple up my paper with a red face, I would have some small document of my thoughts, which today are amusing to me as nostalgic maps--not of imaginary worlds, but of thought process and the environment of the moment, captured.
Being now some years later, it makes less sense to pursue this deviant art. For some reason I am compelled to refine and continue my creation, which at so many junctures I had sought to desist from, to the point even of throwing everything away—regrettably.
Despite this destruction, the concepts remain in my mind, of entire other worlds, a future state where Terrans, as ‘earthfolks’ would be termed then, have engaged a wider galaxy, and colonized on top of other cultures, suffered rebellion, and developed an enhanced culture of coexistence some two-thousand years hence.
Yes, this is all very speculative, but it affords me an excellent opportunity to try my hand at the urban development so hindered by the existence of real people today, and to demonstrate for my own pleasure, and hopefully yours, my capacity for organization, efficiency, and design—albeit in somewhat other than traditional form. This is not map art, but something closer to cartography with an artist’s bent.
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