Ornamental Elements

In our digital directional world we rarely use an ‘old fashioned’ paper map. Our vision is focused on moving from point A to Point B with as few distractions as possible. Anna Lindsay MacDonald focused on maps in a different manner. “My work with maps began as soon as I moved to Toronto. As I navigated the city I was struck by the grid-like quality of the Toronto streets, the intersections and interwoven connections. The imposing urban sprawl I reduced in size to a more legible scale, neighborhoods became bracelets and rings, adornment objects as well as informative objects. I wanted the wearer to engage with their neighborhoods, with transparent acrylic pieces wrapped around their hands and fingers like tattoos, their walking history etched into their skin. The gold and silver dotted paths or the walk to work became the adornment object.”