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This is a little map I did for Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam and Burma, 1775-1950,<\/em> a catalogue of a forthcoming exhibition<\/a> at the Asian Art Museum. The museum’s website says:<\/p>\n Thailand and Burma, neighboring countries that are approximately the same size in area and population, have many cultural features in common (Theravada Buddhism above all), but have traditionally been adversaries.<\/p>\n This exhibition of decorative and religious arts explores Thailand and Burma’s shared aesthetic despite their contrasting histories.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I do my maps<\/a> in Illustrator. In this instance I used kuler<\/a> to help me select colors. Originally both the historical map at left — which shows the bites England took out of Burma before consuming it whole — and the context map at right used the darker color scheme of the left map. The curator thought that was confusing because of the color key at left, so I just desaturated the colors in the map at right.<\/p>\n I could have inset one of the maps but I preferred to keep them separate.<\/p>\n .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is a little map I did for Emerald Cities: Arts of Siam and Burma, 1775-1950, a catalogue of a forthcoming exhibition at the Asian Art Museum. The…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1975,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/1975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}