A new dimension

December 2017

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December 2017

Sam Caldwell with a model of Wellington’s Island Bay, while overlooking the landscape that inspired the piece. Photo: Supplied</e
An artist who turns topo maps into 3D sculpture. Many a tramper has admired the squiggly, fingerprint-like patterns and undulations while poring over a topo map, but a Wellingtonian has turned this aesthetic into an art form. Sam Caldwell has been making handmade 3D topo maps for a decade, creating the maps out of stacked […]
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