--- author: Jan Brennenstuhl categories: - Urban Design cover: alt: Transamerican Map Works height: 1396 src: https://www.urbanartcore.com/transamerican-map-works/Matthew-Cusick-map-artworks.jpg width: 1840 credit: '' date: '2011-09-30T11:25:41Z' description: Matthew Cusick uses transamerican physical maps to create fantastic portrait-works by cutting and pasting small map-snippets together! The results are just superb and a must to see... tags: - Paper Art - Matthew Cusick - Print - Art Map title: Transamerican Map Works url: https://www.urbanartcore.com/transamerican-map-works/ --- # Transamerican Map Works I have a foible for maps in general - you should know that since I posted about the [map cuts by Karen O’Leary](/map-cuts-paper-art/) or the [worldwide subway map source](/subway-worldwide/) - for what reason I was delighted when I recently found the transamerican map artworks by **Matthew Cusick**. Matthew creates mainly portraits by cutting and pasting together snippets of physical maps! The results look just great and I’m really wondering how many maps he already utilized... ![Matthew Cusick - art maps]() Matthew Cusick - art maps ![Matthew Cusick - map works]() Matthew Cusick - map works Via [graffart.eu](http://graffart.eu/blog/2011/09/map-works-transamerican-by-matthew-cusick/).