The Silk Route Art Transit Map with Extended Routes

Archival digital print on Hahnemuhle paper. Edition 4/100. Image size 27.25 x 43.25"; Paper size 33/25 x 48". Transit style map with 27 interconnected routes and 940 art destinations. The map highlights art exchanges that occurred across the extended ancient and medieval Silk Routes. According to the artist; " The map depicts routes as overlapping art spheres with radiating branches to illustrate the interconnected networks of art exchanges. Hubs, transfer stations, cities, art centers, and ancient and nomadic sites represent places where art was created along the silk road". Valentina DuBasky is an artist based in New York City who has traveled along the Silk Routes in India, China, Uzbekistan, and Southeast Asia where she researched Buddhist cave paintings and ancient art to prepare for her own paintings and prints. Valentina made her first sketch representing the Silk Routes as interconnected art spheres during a trip to India with the Fulbright Specialist Program. The drawing, created one evening while riding a train from Almora, Uttarakhand in the Indian Himalayas to Delhi, was the start of her journey with the map print. The Silk Route Art Transit Map with Extended Routes is the result of her art research project that maps art exchanges across the Silk Routes. …