This is an imagined topographic map. The composition is influenced by looking at old architectural drawings in which each ascending contour was a slightly darker shade, and Tolkien's hand drawn maps. The shapes of the two lakes come from looking at maps of both the north shore and the "pothole" lakes around the confluence of the Minnesota and Mississippi rivers.
This piece was part of the "FOUND HORIZONS: Imagined Topographies" exhibition at the JHP Art Gallery.
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