Gareth Fuller is an artist and explorer. His work acts as a layered gaze into the identity of urban and rural places, transcribing their personal, geographical, and social meanings into what he calls ‘maps of the mind’. The results of these transcriptions are vast and intricate hand-drawn compositions – a series of visual portraits that express his personal and purposeful wanderings.
This detail shows the headquarters of Chinese Central Television, a building that resembles a pair of trousers. To the right, it includes Citic Tower, known locally as China Zun - Zun meaning a type of ceremonial Chinese wine chalice, thus the image of the wine bottle, with glasses at its base.
The first North Korean female pilot is depicted flying through the air. I was told she had dinner with Kim Il Sung in a hidden bunker, inside a wooded valley. Legend has it that black dragons also once lived in the valley, and that they danced in the white clouds.
Adjacent to Purbeck’s many nature reserves on the south shore of Poole Harbour is Wytch Farm, shown here with a witch’s hat atop a building. Surprisingly, this site is the largest onshore oil field in western Europe.
