First Week's Work - Unexplored Territories

I started by jotting down all the different ideas I had for this project. I tested a couple on a small scale, and narrowed down my choices. I sorted through some of the maps in the digital media lab, and found some of California, Chicago, Alaska, and France. I took tracing paper and tested out more of my ideas. I then went online to find a map of the US (shown below). I then experimented with line and negative space to get the second photo pictured. I'm not sure how I feel about it, because it is somewhat disatisfying. I printed it out and attempted to work with it more. Going forward I would like to recreate it in pen or ink and see where I can go from there.