When subway maps turn into paintings
2008-05-09 16:03:01 (GMT) (Caymanmama.com - News)New York, New York (CaymanMama.com) — Enrico Miguel Thomas draws on the 14th Street platform of 6 trains as he captures the shiny trains, green columns, the straphangers and the overhead fans with deliberate and quick strokes that he makes on the free maps of MTA using them as his canvas. He tells that these maps are very convenient to fold up and he keeps them in the Ziploc bags.
37-year old Thomas is a Pratt Institute graduate and he started drawing the subway scenes on white paper, but one day he got an idea to draw them on maps. He uses paint pens and sharpie markers to draw and he says that maps are even better than the drawing papers, and when people see at his drawings, they cannot even imagine that it is a map. In addition to that, he does not have to buy canvas as these maps are available for free, and he does not need to prime a canvas as the background is provided by the map itself.
The paintings of Thomas have attracted numerous fans, mostly MTA workers and commuters, and some of them offer him words of support and even donate funds. He says that his childhood troubles gave him his passion for drawing as he was burnt 60% from his father by water and drawing helped him to get out of the pain.
He sees art as an escape, a way to survive, a refuge and a way to be free. His favourite subject of drawing is homeless, because he himself is homeless and is able to relate to the struggles of the homeless people. Thomas has done 8 map drawings till now and he plans to draw 15 to set up an exhibition.
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