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Artist designs ‘survival map’ for a quarantined world
Fuller usually walks thousands of miles to research his distinctive hand-drawn maps of cities including Bristol and Beijing.
But due to his movements in China currently being restricted by the coronavirus outbreak, the artist’s most recent work is a map of the mind that explores both how to survive and thrive through home confinement.
Fuller is giving away a free download of Quarantine + Pandemic Survival Map via his website, as well as selling postcards made during his two weeks in self-isolation.
“I hope people really enjoy this art and it offers a positive distraction,” he said.
The artist, whose Bristol map is on display in the M Shed, said that all he could do during his own self-isolation was “to carry on drawing, keep commenting, recording my insecurities, ideas, and share them”.
“I can’t stop doing my work because life becomes challenging. Because life is challenging.”
Quarantine + Pandemic Survival Map by Fuller hopes to tackle hard truths with consideration and humour – artwork by Fuller
Quarantine + Pandemic Survival Map sees advice and opinions grapple for space in the artist’s imagined community.
It is a map of visual puns that features elderly neighbours, happy introverts and isolated folk.
A “misinformation treatment plant” is installed next to a street named after a popular messaging app. Connections to schools are cut, while “key” workers make their way to a “hero’s hospital.”
At the centre of the art is “home, clean, home,” shielded from the outside world by a protective bubble.
The postcards, meanwhile, take isolation in Fuller’s small flat one day at a time.
Download the map, buy the postcards and donate to help Fuller’s work at www.fullermaps.com, and follow Fuller’s project updates on Instagram via @fuller_artist.
Fuller’s map of Bristol is on display at the M Shed – photo courtesy of Fuller
Main photo: Fuller
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