From Here to There

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"The situation is a familiar as it is mundane: planning to visit friends in an unfamiliar part of the city, you draw yourself arudimentary map with detailed directions. In 2008, artist and graphic designer Kris Harzinski founded the Hand Drawn Map Association in order to collect just such drawings of the everyday. Fascinated by these accidental records of a moment in time, he soon amassed a wide variety of maps, ranging from simple directions to fictional maps, to maps of unusual places, including examples drawn by well-known historical figures such as Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Shackleton, and Alexander Calder