our country or butcher painting?

The artist, Kim Dingle, asked teen-agers in Las Vegas to draw their country in the shape they thought it had, without looking at a map. Dingle transformed the drawings into a painting. We're actually pretty impressed with the kids' ability to draw from memory. But on second glance, the collection of US maps begins to look like a variety of meat cuts. Do the Las Vegas kids subconsciously have slaughter on their mind? It must be those violent video games they're playing. Or maybe it's the Food Network's colonization of the hearts and minds of our countrymen.

The painting is in a book about unconventional maps called, You Are Here.

[from strangemaps.wordpress.com via digg.com]