Monday, July 15, 2013

Common Mistake for My Name


I imagine a section of Helsinki called Helinski, and this is the tile for its subway stop.  Helsinki has the world's most northern Metro.  I like to think Helinski is the last stop on the line going most north, the most northern subway stop in the world.


I'm starting to get into Donald Evans territory here, the artist who made fake postage stamps and invented countries to go with his stamps.  He imagined his countries in detail.  I loved the way he created the perforations by typing periods over and over until holes appeared in the paper.  He made his own cancellation stampers too.  Notice the value of each of the domino stamps below = the domino dots.

Well, Melville did say in Moby-Dick, “It is not down on any map; true places never are.”