Mapper's Delight: Nas — Gold Sculpture gift-buyers

Mapper's Delight: Nas — Gold Sculpture gift-buyersNas mapped Queensbridge so precisely that Illmatic is still used as a case study in narrative geography. Mapper's Delight: Nas takes that mapping impulse and makes it literal a hand cast resin sculpture finished in 24k gold leaf, tracing every geographic reference across Nas's full discography. Part of the Mapper's Delight series. Each sculpture is a data object and a portrait the geographic footprint of a career compressed into a single gold form.

Edition of 25

part of the Intonarumori: Noise Making Machines series

Nasir Jones never moved far from Queensbridge — but his discography moved everywhere

For collectors of hip-hop art

Kendrick Lamar's discography is a meditation on Compton — and on what it means to leave and return

The physical texture of a hand-pulled print on archival paper is the point — this is not a reproduction

Du Bois Institute Fellow

Hand-pulled screenprint

then rendering that data as a long-exposure light drawing

each piece is a geographic portrait of a hip-hop career — the kind of object that holds up in a gallery and holds its own in a conversation

At gallery scale

Hand-pulled screenprint on archival paper