The globe, on the other hand, is for me an ideal map, even a small, toy globe tells a lot about the world, because it is in space, it has the least distorted shape, size, proportions of continents and oceans, etc. It is also (usually) a regular ball, a balanced object, for me also a sensual one. I like to touch globes, they have a nice texture and shape. Not with just a finger, but with a whole hand on the map.

If you can write on maps by making notes about the progress of a route or by marking a route, maybe it could also be enlarged, expanded, developed, to treat the map or globe as a carte blanche or as a form that for some reason can and must be completed. And since you can write down everything that is worth remembering for a shorter or longer period of time, my maps and globes have created a quite extensive and very personal geographical and literary atlas (although maybe poetry is a more appropriate term here or maybe it’s just lettering).

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