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Michael James Freedman The Distance From Here

The Distance From Here · Map print

The Divided City

Unique giclée print · 12.49 × 22 inches · Unframed · 1/1

Print details · $250.00
The Divided City · Map print · 1/1

The work

About this work

Coral, ochre, and pale gray washes fill the boroughs beneath a delicate white street network. Charcoal blue water defines the shorelines and spreads into a broad, uneven field below the city. Soft edges and translucent color allow the painted surface to show through the geographic outline. The contrast between the precise streets and the shifting washes gives the map a quiet tension, keeping both neighborhood detail and the city's divided geography in view.

The city beneath the stories

A map from The Distance From Here.

A painted map served as the navigation surface for The Distance From Here, connecting its four original oil paintings to the geography of traffic violence. These artist-selected map prints extend that work into a series on paper.

Without crash markers, attention shifts to the city itself: its intricate streets, divided shores, and connections between five boroughs. Find a familiar neighborhood, follow a remembered journey, or see the shape of the city anew.

The painted language comes from 258 Feet from Here, 1,104 Feet from Here, 1,924 Feet from Here, and 3,504 Feet from Here.

The physical work

Color, surface, and an edition of one.

Printed at 12.49 × 22 inches with Epson pigment inks on Hahnemühle German Etching paper. The textured matte surface carries brilliant color, subtle tonal shifts, and the fine detail of the streets.

Each image is a unique print, numbered 1/1. No second print of this specific image will be made.

Accompanied by an 8.5 × 11-inch sheet explaining the work and its connection to the project, with authentication signed by the artist.

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The Divided City

12.49 × 22 inches · Hahnemühle German Etching · Unframed

Edition of one · 1/1

$250.00 USD

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