Anna Foer

Artist Statement

My artwork is map collage that offers the viewer a combination of imaginary landscapes with mystical, scientific and ecological themes. Just as heaven and earth are connected, my work explores the visual connection between the realms of the physical and metaphysical.  The visual description of a three-dimensional world on a flat plane is conjoined with the depiction of the mystical.

Maps that I incorporate into collages may be part of regional, geographic, geological or religious narratives; boundaries may have been altered in hopes of furthering certain ends.  Usually there is more than one story a map can convey.  My work also has more than one story to tell.  I may be trying to both describe the curve of the earth on a flat piece of paper and using maps to blur the boundaries between the natural world and the manufactured/technological world, representing simultaneously land, sky, water and architecture.

Integration of scientific/mathematical ideas is an elegant solution to my quest to integrate further dimensions of time and space into my map collages-which up to this point depicted only three dimensions.

I hope to synthesize all the themes that pre-occupy me into a worldwide view, literally and figuratively.

Anna Fine Foer