Hungarian-born artist Agnes Denes, best known for planting a wheat field in Manhattan and covering a Finnish hillside with trees, also drew the best map projections: why shouldn’t the continents be on a cube? A pyramid? A nautilus? A hot dog? In her words, she was “working with a paradox, defining the elusive, visualizing the invisible, communicating the incommunicable…”
Pictured: Study of Distortions: Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space by Agnes Denes