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A British artist's cartographic love letter to Beijing(2)

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2017-05-27 10:13:57Xinhua Mo Hong'e ECNS App Download

In 2005, he began "London Town," a project he would not complete for another 10 years.

"London Town" was hand-drawn in black ink. Archival prints of the piece have been acquired by the British Library and the Museum of London.

It is a graphic rendition of Fuller's relationship with the city, and as much about the artist as the metropolis. In the work, London and Fuller are as inseparable and interdependent as James Joyce and the Dublin of "Ulysses."

Paddington Station is represented by a bear. Five interlocked rings hover over the Olympic Park in Stratford. But at Baker Street tube station, we see no Calabach pipe or deerstalker, instead panicked human figures rush out of the station.

"I had a friend who was killed in the bombing on July 7, 2005," Fuller said, referring to the terrorist attacks that killed 52 people and injured more than 700.

"Terrorism, history, cuddly toys, shared feelings, I documented them all," Fuller said. "From start to finish, it was a decade of my life, but the city is eternal."

A native of London, Fuller reckons he spent a total of 1,500 hours on "London Town," working a day job and conducting "research" -- walking, cycling, and taking pictures -- in his "spare" time.

"It is a picture of the many minds which define the identity of a place in the past, through the present, and into the future," he said.

  

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