https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/26/adam-dants-map-of-chaucers-london/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 26 Jun 2022 19:04:18 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/26/adam-dants-map-of-chaucers-london/#comment-1469017 Sun, 26 Jun 2022 19:04:18 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192269#comment-1469017 It makes me hope there is a heaven, where both Adam Dant and you, dear gentle author, can meet Geoffrey Chaucer for whom you have such affection. He would surely reciprocate it. Where can one buy the map itself, or a teatowel?

]]> https://spitalfieldslife.com/2022/06/26/adam-dants-map-of-chaucers-london/#comment-1468972 Sun, 26 Jun 2022 12:39:01 +0000 https://spitalfieldslife.com/?p=192269#comment-1468972 I always enjoy exploring another of Adam Dant’s masterful maps. I fantasize about looking over his shoulder (shhhhh! I won’t make a sound. Promise!) as he begins to plot one of his intricate
layouts. Just a “normal” map would be a challenge — but his versions include personages, blocks of text, and his unique graphic cartouches. Yikes. How does he do it?
A couple years ago, I did not have “a Salinger year” as they say these days……..but, instead, I had a Chaucer year. I did mixed media portraits of the various travelers, and the old wizard himself.
(dare I say, my version of Chaucer featured a “little woolen hat”) I worked on the project for
several months, and happily found an exhibition venue for the series. Voila!

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