La Carte: Le Marais

La Carte: Le MaraisBy Kristen Coates12"H x 15"W FramedMixed mediaSigned and dated on reverse This is part of a series called La Carte Saint Germain des Prés, Le Marais and 1st Arrondissement These small framed mixed media pieces represent my love for color, cartography and knowing exactly where to go in a particular neighborhood. I have always loved learning about a place before I arrive and marking out on a map where I will explore then while on the trip noting the map where I actually made it to and what was my favorite. These small assemblages give the same feeling of these marked up maps, but are certainly more pleasing to look at than a googlemap! Most of my friends say I should be a luxury travel agent, but I prefer painter of things that likely only make sense to me, but gratefully they resonate with others enough I get to share them often. I would have loved to be a cartographer, but my ability to stay in reality and depict things to scale happily is near impossible. I think I’