“Battle Map of Avlicir”

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USGS topographic maps fascinated me at age 14½. This fascination carried into the production of this map of a city used for a war game between my friends. The city’s name reflects a crush on Aðiævlikâ (portrait here), the greatest crush of my high school days. Plenty of other names reflect a teenage-hormone drenched preoccupation with many other girls. I had been teaching myself Russian, thus the Cyrillic writing all over the map. This lent a foreign, cold war flavor to the game. This map is exemplary of hoardes produced in the latter semester of freshman year high school. This drawing, like the others, was produced using ballpoint ink flow pens on graph paper bought at the mall, taking shape organically, with few construction lines. Produced 13 April 1984 = Tayya 3160, 9th grade, three dozen first phase (Ralysa Ximerlorielal Xrga).

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