💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🗺️🖊️ Jerry Gretzinger started doodling a #map of a fictional #city called Ukrania during breaks at a ball bearing factory in 1963.

Six decades later, he still works on it daily – following instructions from a custom deck of playing cards that tell him when to add #buildings, change #colors, or let parts dissolve into “the Void,” a collage of personal scraps. The map now spans thousands of hand-drawn panels.

👉 https://www.openculture.com/2026/06/this-man-has-been-drawing-a-map-of-an-imaginary-land-since-1963.html

#cartography #art #drawing #creativity #project #fiction #michigan #grandrapids