Superpower

"Robertson's Superpower: Babylon explodes like an ocular grenade, a joyous cross between a mill bomb and a kaleidoscope," says Bryan Hollerbach, art critic at the Ladue News. These maps explore postcolonial transnational capitalism by comparing and contrasting the Mercator and Gall-Peters map projects. These maps consider the psychological effect that scale has on the perception of cultural importance. For instance, the Mercator projection used most commonly in the United States depicts Greenland as being about the same size as Africa when Africa is 18 times larger than Greenland. In these works, cliché signs of a spreading consumer culture follow the lines of conflict across the globe and highlight active cultural fault lines, giving a visual to postcolonial power structures.