Lisbon cartographer and artist Anthony Despalins on using the visual language of French 1:50k topos to create imagined landscapes, a toolkit of pencils, poems, markers, memories and ink, drawing inspiration from the Gironde estuary and Matthew 6:9, sketching entire layouts in reverse on tracing paper, chasing altered states while creating worlds, and “living in every inch of the maps” he draws. See his work at https://instagram.com/the_inland_sea

1:50k 1950s French topo example

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Em Todos os Jardins, inspired by a Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen poem
Kishkindha
Zelenskyy
Comme Au Ciel

Matthew 6:9
Christus statue

Boire
Gilles Baudry
Mon Âme A-T-Elle
Porque
Portolan chart
Mikael Asikainen
Helen Cann

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