Stephen Walter’s maps and Landscapes set out to challenge our first impressions, exploring the ideas about beauty and desire within the politics of space and the micro and macro cossoms in which we live. Under the guise of traditional techniques, his work reveals a myriad of words and symbols. The fantastical additions, references to history, trivia, personal experiences and local knowledge merge older notions of Romanticism with a fascination in the intricacies and the contradictions of our world.

He continues to use a range of media including drawing, photography, digital, screen-printing, collage and painting, and recently the applying of these onto objects.

(via @thinkbigchief)