Ewan David Eason

Ewan David Eason creates abstract images from reality, drawing particular inspiration from organic and man-made patterns created in cartography. By gilding with precious metals or using complimentary colours, he aims to focus the viewer on the sacredness and diversity of our living landscapes. High levels of accuracy and dedication are used in the construction of the artworks, emphasising their status as a method of art-as-documentation.

The Dymaxion Map was invented by the American Architect Richard Buckminster Fuller in 1943. It is a projection of a world onto the surface of an icosahedron, which if folded creates a polyhedron globe made up of 22 sides. Fuller claimed that his map had advantages over other projections for world maps, namely it has less distortion of relative size of areas, most notably when compared to the Mercator world projection. Eason's recreation, Dymaxion Mundi, uses 22 individually gilded panels with the map projection printed directly onto the surface of each panel intricately including every major roadway and waterway from each continent.