Irene's Wave

About Matthew Cusick

ABOUT THE WORK Map Works Maps and nautical charts are more or less obligated to objectivity. What these to-scale illustrations are lacking is exactly what Matthew Cusick gives them: impulsiveness, emotion, and power. In Map Works, Matthew Cusick puts together pieces of maps like a puzzle, creating an intoxicating and “roaring” new image. Massive waves rise up where there would otherwise only be numbers and lines. A crown of foam, the northern Pacific dances atop the other oceans. Through Cusick’s collages, a feeling of three-dimensionality arises from cartographic two-dimensionality, doing justice to the gigantic proportions of such an overwhelming wave. Matthew Cusick found… Read more