Stephen Walter creates landscapes where objects are slowly taken over by their symbolic representations, creating forests of geographical map symbols and places where every inch is mapped and quantified for human purpose.

The ‘awe’, so revered by Walter, is presented by the sheer volume of symbols, paired down and separated from their real state. Tackling the notions of our increasing distance from the land and the outlook of a deeply troubling long-term future, Walter decides to use mundane elements of contemporary and municipal culture to hark back to a sublime space.

Here, technology and information provides a new…

Stephen Walter creates landscapes where objects are slowly taken over by their symbolic representations, creating forests of geographical map symbols and places where every inch is mapped and quantified for human purpose.

The ‘awe’, so revered by Walter, is presented by the sheer volume of symbols, paired down and separated from their real state. Tackling the notions of our increasing distance from the land and the outlook of a deeply troubling long-term future, Walter decides to use mundane elements of contemporary and municipal culture to hark back to a sublime space.

Here, technology and information provides a new wilderness, unavoidable within the realms of a contemporary sublime. The tight drawing process mimics the growing environmental concerns for the need to ‘cut back’.

Similands has now sold out due to it’s presence at 2007’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition where over 30 copies of the print were sold.

Eyestorm have just published their first print with Walter, entitled ‘Municipality Island’. The lithograph, in an edition of 50, is exclusive to us and you cannot buy it anywhere else.