I have an intense love of maps, I always have. There is something about them that triggers my imagination, makes me think about where I am going and where I have been; and the dark corners where the monsters are.
Edward Fairburn is a portrait artist from Southampton, UK. His essential surface is the printed map. From that surface, he integrates human portraiture into the topography of the location. I connect to his work on a personal level because I see the portraits and the locales blending together, just as a city informs a personality and a personality impacts a city. Our location and origin inform our identity in ways that most are only slightly aware of.
