Simon Patterson
The Great Bear, 1992
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Make Your Own Mind Map
October 2005, Tate Britain
Artist Simon Patterson creates strange mind maps, like this one, called The Great Bear. Here he has put the names of writers, singers, footballers and politicians onto the station stops of what looks to be an underground map. Make your own mind map by using lines and stations to describe connections between people or things. You could use string or electrical tape to join them all up. Make your own station stops and travel places in your mind.
Top tips!
- Who would you like to make a map about? You could choose a group of people such as all your friends in school, your family, your pets, your teachers.
- You might like to make a map of something that isn't to do with people. You could create a creepy crawly map or a favourite food map. Then think up as many examples as you can and connect them all up.
- Use string or electrical tape to join up all your station stops. You might like to make a map like an underground map or else invent your own patterns and ways of linking up.
- You could draw your mind map on a piece or paper - or else make a giant mind map and expand out all over the floor. You could turn your bedroom floor into a mind map using string!
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