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Writer's pictureJean-Francois Podevin

The Country Shaped Like a Woman

Updated: Jul 10


Geographic map of a country shaped like a woman
Fine Art Print from the Lost Ocean series by J.F.Podevin

"A  map unfolding, celestial blue becomes oceanic, the spirit of cartographers, a country shaped like a woman.

New flags, new horizons. father and motherlands cease to have always existed. 

Wars, divine right boundaries, territories are resorbed into the flow of history. 

Renewal will reveal clarity, it will unveil a country shaped like a woman."


"Une carte  dépliée, le bleu céleste devient océanique, l'esprit des cartographes, 

un pays en forme de femme.

Horizons nets, drapeaux neufs, ordre territorial, les guerres sont résorbées.

Pères et mères patries cessent d’avoir toujours existé. 

Le droit divin des territoires se répand au cour de l’histoire. 

Le renouveau révélera sa clarté et dévoilera un Pays en Forme de Femme."



The names on the map are the names of people and places I know. In a nutshell, they represent my own cosmology, or cosmogony.

The panoramic landscape shows the harbor of Sebastopol circa 1918, empty of its warships.




imaginary country, with anthropomorphic boundaries
Geographical Map of a country shaped like a woman


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