King Street Camel

acrylic collage found objects thread on canvas 80x27cm 2012 I love maps. This piece is based on some English road maps from the 16^thCentury, which, in absence of google earth plotted roads on long scrolls. One night while having steak and mash at the Coopers Arms I asked people what Newtown meant to them. Those important sites are listed on this map. The metal letters I bought in a craft store in Chicago in 2008. The camel I picked up in the streets of Marrickville on one of my walks. I think it was part of a great find including some Fuzzy Felt and some flash cards with rabbits on them. I sewed the road, and created a scroll.