- City
- Toronto
- Booth
- Exclusively Online
Robert Farmer
I work with old maps, opening a dialogue between geography and memory, where
precision gives way to interpretation. In creating collages from these materials I
transform tools of navigation into evocative visual landscapes. Faded coastlines,
obsolete borders, and delicate typographic marks shift from instruction to texture,
forming layered compositions.
These collages suggest geography as something lived rather than fixed. By re-
contextualizing archival materials, the work honours their history while resisting
their original function. The images feel both familiar and disorienting, inviting
viewers to navigate by emotion instead of direction. Old maps become expressive
terrains of memory, imagination, and time.
