In Orientation to Art and Design, Annie Donnegan, Kyle Zimmerman, LaToya Miller, and Cati Eisel created a map project. It's a poster about 30 inches long and eighteen inches tall. The background is a very pale blue, like an extremely tinted baby blue color. In the verticle axis about a third to a half of the way down the picture, is a transparent photograph of a beating human heart. The heart having a subtle blue tint tying it to the pale blue background, but also having the pink tissue and red flowing blood vessels traveling throughout the muscle. Behind the transparent heart, is a black skyline of Minneapolis, as black as the universe. It is blurred at a few of the edges and it stretches across the entire page, like a caterpillar stretched out on a leaf. Coming from some of the black buildings, are thin and thick darker blue of the pale baby blue background. This blue is a rich blue, one that children would color their sky blue with, or color the ocean. The lines arc and wiggle from the black city to the center heart. Going into one of the arteries. Along with the blue lines, are vibrant red lines arcing down below the city to sixteen different squares, eight stretched across one row. The squares are all of the same size, not quite one on top of the other exactly and all completely grey-scaled. Each square has it's own logo that characterize what that square represents. Also, in the corners of the squares are either one of two museums or both of them, which are the Walker Art Center, logo or Minneapolis Institute of Art (MIA) logo. Those logos are also placed on each of the poster's upper corners, the black and white Walker logo in the upper left and the colorful MIA logo in the upper right hand corner. Lastly, right in the center of the poster at the very top between the two logos is the title "THE (H)ART OF MPLS" (H)ART being in the same vibrant red as the arteries going into the activities that the museums each have (the sixteen squares at the bottom with the museum logos in the corners to symbolize which museum offers what).
My interpretation of this map is that the activities are the muscles of the city. They are what allows the city to move and function, without them it would be a "dead" city. It won't be able to breathe (like lungs) move forward (like moving the legs) or grasp anything new or exciting (like hands). Once the activities use up all of the "oxygen" then the blood will flow back to the heart where the cycle of the thriving city starts over. Activities using up the oxygen while being part of the city, veins leave the city back to the heart. It shows the never ending cycle of how art influences what's around it and vise versa. It shows how they are related.
