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“In all of my prints, I collect things that I’ve cut out from Google Satellite View— parking lots, silos, landflls, waste ponds.”
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For the average person, Google Maps is a website used to locate an address on a map, find directions from one place to another and see what areas around the world look like from a bird’s eye perspective. But for artist Jenny Odell, Google Maps is a tool to see, cut up and re-imagine her world in a new, photographic way.