Artist: Dan Ott
One of my first ongoing series of assemblages involved cutting maps into squares and then reassembling them into either large rectangles or squares where Frankfurt Germany may be right next to Frankfort Kentucky.  I call the series New World Order and I'm always on the lookout for interesting maps to work with.  The Duluth Area Fishing Guide Map served as the basis for this latest edition to the New World Order and it is, to this date, the only map of it's kind to be included in the series.  The original map was composed of a white background with light blue ink drawings.  I cut the map into quarters and left one section in the original colors.  I then painted the other three sections two different shades of blue and one orange.  [Fun fact:  I found this same color scheme on a bottle cap that I kept in my studio for years and it was right there when I needed it!]