My artwork is map collage that offers the viewer a conceptual 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 physcial and metaphysical.

Maps that I incorporate into collages may be part of political or religious narratives; boundaries may have been altered in hopes of furthering certain ends. There is usually more than one story a map can convey; my work also has more than one story to tell. I may be both trying to 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 world, representing at the same time land, sky, water, and architecture.

The visual description of a three-dimensional world on a flat plane is conjoined with the depiction of the metaphysical.

I have become increasingly interested in exploring the representation of the new theoretical understanding of physics. The 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.

Until recently, the themes and content of many of the collages were Judaic. Now I am embarking on a new "genre" that promises to be more universal in subject matter. In so doing, I hope to synthesize what came before into a worldwide view, literally and figuratively.

—Anna Fine Foer

Contact info:
Anna Fine Foer
anna@annafineart.com
www.annafineart.com
410.267.8398