Composed of nearly 10 million square miles of prairies, mountain ranges, forests, taigas, deserts, and rimmed by almost 40,000 miles of convoluted coastline, is North America. It is a huge and lively place, with more detail beyond what most can imagine. You might think that drawing the land would be a crazy idea. Yet, this crazy idea was made into reality by a man named Anton Thomas.
For four years and nine months, the Melbourne-based artist drew North America by hand, using a pen and about 24 colored pencils. The final product, which was completed in February 2019, has a span of twenty feet.
It is said that the map has reshaped Thomas’s life.
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(Image Credit: Anton Thomas/ Atlas Obscura)