REPRODUCTION OF A HOMEMADE PLAYING CARD USED BY GRETZINGER TO UPDATE JERRY’S MAP. 2020. LIMITED EDITION.

Maple City: s.p. (Jerry Gretzinger), 2012
8.55 x 5.7cm, inkjet on thin card. A homemade reproduction of one of the homemade playing cards that Gretzinger uses to make decisions on how to modify (evolve) his huge fictitious map of a non-existent continent. The map (created from individual panels) which was began in 1963 is regularly updated with new panels replacing others much like a real landscape might evolve over time. To decide which panels are updated and how, Gretzinger uses a pack of cards that are modified to give instructions as to what should happen in each panel. This is a reproduction of one such card – the instruction being “COUNT 2/PAINT AS PREVIOUS/COPY”. Limitation not known but not many. VG+.