EMILY SANDERS

My World

 

 

 

The original inspiration for this piece came from a photograph of my friends and I from the summer of 2014 on a Disney Cruise.  It is a snapshot of pure joy and friendship. This picture also holds a hidden message that I attempted to make evident in my work.  All of us are from very different places across the globe. Together we represent North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Austria. To embrace this I took inspiration from Ed Fairbun's style of cartographic art.  Each face is drawn on a piece of map from our hometowns. The background, however, is different.  It is the Atlantic Ocean, the place where we met. I attempted to make the piece embody the feeling that no matter the differences or background we can all come together and create a better world by embracing each other. Our different backgrounds, in fact, are what make this picture interesting. Embrace new and different people.  Who knows? There may be a different, even more beautiful personal world waiting to be created.

 

Pen on Atlas

February, 2015