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August 03, 2005
Carte du tendre
Here is the "carte du tendre" I was telling you about. It is a topographic/allegorical representation of the "love country" where the lover has to find his way to the heart of his "lady" from the city of "new friendship". :-) This is actually funnier than I remembered. It wasİcreated collectively by a group of "precieuses" gathering in the salon of Madame de Scudery during the years 1653-54 and she included it in her novel "Clelie, histoire romaine". It's just a funny thing, if you want the cities, lakes and sea names translated you'll have to shout (?) me another coffee ;-).
Emilie sent me this today in response to me telling her about my idea to diagrammatically 'map' my relationship with Anna.
I've been thinking about old maps that contain monsters as warning signs (sometimes put there by traders trying keep a particular route secret). Diagrammatizing my relationship with Anna started as a joke in an email I sent to Lisa . . . I had been thinking about maps more specifically in relation to our upcoming research trip in November.
Posted by Luke Wood at August 3, 2005 11:00 AM