加里斯介绍他的创意地图和制作方式

加里斯为我们展示他的北京创意地图（印刷版）

北京创意地图的顶部是长城

加里斯北京创意地图的局部和他作品的二维码

以下是威廉在2018年写的他眼中的加里斯

每个人对自己周围的环境总得有个概念，无论正确与否。因为那是他们生活、工作和学习的地方，是“他们自己的世界”。

它或许是一个方圆20公里的区域，上面有一些线条，如熟悉的大街小巷和地铁线路。因为在每个人的脑海里都有一张地图，上面画满了这些路线。

在这张图上或许有他的家庭和朋友的各种信息，诸如：父母的住地、亲戚的家和同学的住所。

还有很久之前的人们居住在这里的建筑地层。

现在设想一下，一个陌生人来到北京，租了一所公寓，准备住上一年。他每天出门，徒步在这座城市中，只想了解他所在的地方是怎样布局的。

首先，他从北向南，沿着中轴线走，找到北京城的平衡与和谐

然后，他绕北京老城墙曾经站立的地方，也就是现在二环路的位置。

之后，走三环

再后，走四环

他走啊走，到处走，有目的地走。

当你开车的时候，你注视着路面。

当你乘坐地铁的时候，要不你看见的只有黑暗，要不就是一张张陌生人的脸。你从A 来到B，像戴上了眼罩，搞不清这俩点之间有什么东西存在。

然而，当你步行的时候，你可以感受到行走的距离，你有时间欣赏每一座建筑，并且把它们留在记忆之中。

2017年，英国人加里斯.弗勒来到北京，他像个外星人一样，疾走在这座城市之中。他要画他自己所理解的北京地图，行走是他理解北京、绘制北京的第一步。

一个月前，我见到了加里斯。我第一次知道他行走和地图绘制的事是通过BBC新闻。我急切想与他取得联系，了解他对这座我生活了30年的城市是怎样理解的。

他乘坐地铁，在离我家最近的地铁站下车，然后步行三公里。这一路没有什么可看的，但是如果你想感 受一个地方脉搏的跳动，步行是唯一的方式。

当他打开他用双脚丈量出来的作品——北京地图，我惊呆了，这是我见过的最神奇、最具细节的地图。它就展示在我俩面前。

在地图的顶端，是北京市的北部天际线，上面画上了万里长城。当你弯下腰来仔细观察，每一平方厘米的地方都画有微小的细节，一些容易理解，一些神秘无比。

“这是一座孔庙”加里斯说。其实，他在玩英语文字游戏。在英语里，困惑（confusion）一词听上去像是孔夫子（Confucius）。他想表达的意思是，在一个超大型城市里，很难找到如同孔夫子这样的智者教导人们要做到的调理、静怡和仁慈。

我用放大镜一点点、一块块、一片片看下去，一个惊喜接着一个惊喜。这幅地图展示了这位地图艺术家非凡的洞察力。

地图下方一个场景引起了我的好奇。路上行走的汽车似乎都是四脚朝天，它们一个接一个地掉进了一座建筑里，出来以后都面目全非。

加里斯解释说，这是代表了汽车的淘汰、回收和再利用。

加里斯绘制的第一幅地图画的是英国西部港口城市布里斯托尔，接下来画了他生长的城市伦敦。他的那张伦敦原版地图被大英图书馆收藏。“接下来该画什么地方？”他自问

过去、现在和将来的大国——中国。他先选择了北京。

北京，街道纵横，让他疲惫不堪？人群，熙熙攘攘，使他心烦意乱？

当然没有。通过行走北京的每一条大街小巷，这个来自世界另一边的人体验到的北京，比一些自称是“老北京”的人还要多。

“中国是挑战自我的理想之地” 加里斯说：“我正在思考，下一步该做什么…可能是上海，也许是香港，也许是整个世界…"

这是我购买的印刷品《加里斯眼中的北京》

这是准备在英国驻华使馆官邸展示的《加里斯眼中的北京》原版图。

Everyone has an idea, correct or incorrect, of how the land lies around where they live and work and study. This region might be known as ‘their world’.

It might be an area that’s say 20 Kms in diameter, that is crossed by a few lines such as main roads and subway lines, that are familiar, because the person who has this map in his mind uses those routes.

It might have a family and friends ‘layer’ of info, such as where one’s parents live, where relatives live, where classmates live.

And an historical layer, of buildings used by people long ago.

Now, just imagine a stranger coming to your city, Beijing, and renting a flat for a year, and going out, to find out for himself how the land lies.

First, he walks from north to south along the Beijjng meridian, to get a feel for balance and harmony.

Then he walks where the ancient city wall once stood. More or less the second ring road.

Then the third ring road.

Then the fourth.

And so on. Walking everywhere. For good reason.

When you drive, you watch the road.

When you take the subway you see only darkness, faces that don’t talk and your taken blindfolded from A to B without gaining any sense of what rally lies between.

But when you walk you feel the distance. You have time to see every building. Take it all in.

Gareth Fuller from the UK came to Beijjng in 2017 as that alien, to walk the city. This was his essential step en route to drawing his personal mind map of Beijjng.

I met Gareth a month ago. I first read about his walking and map project on BBC news, and that was enough to prompt me to get in contact with him to see his idea of the city where I’ve lived for almost 30 years.

He took the subway to a station close to my home and then walked three kilometers. There’s nothing of great interest en route, but if you’re looking to sense the pulse of a place , walking is the only way to go.

As he unfurled a print of the work he produced at the end of his foot exploration of Beijjng, the most detailed representation of the city that I now call home lay before us.

At the top of the map, on the city’s northern horizon, is the Great Wall. As you stoop down, every square centimeter is packed with tiny details, some clear to interpret, others mysterious.

‘This is the Temple of Confusion’ says Gareth. It’s a play on words ( confusion sounding like Confucius) in English, to express not the order, calmness and benevolence of the ancient sage’s teachings but the overwhelming madness and and pace of life in the mega city.

Using a magnifying glass on the map reveals surprise after surprise and the perceptive mind of the map maker/artist.

I’m intrigued by a scene towards the base of the map. Cars seems to be turned upside down. They enter a building and emerge from it transformed.

Gareth explains it’s a representation of recycling.

Gareth first mind mapped the city of Bristol and then London, where he grew up. His London map was collected by the British Library. What next he asked himself?

A place where the past, present and future are all mega — China. He chose Beijjng.

Has traipsing the streets of the city tired him out? Has the talk of pollution put him off?

In fact not. By taking the long and slow road, through neighborhoods, down hutongs, this man from the other side of the world experienced a Beijjng that few people that call themselves Beijjngers even get to know.

‘China has been the ideal challenge’ he says, ‘and I’m thinking of what to do next....maybe Shanghai, maybe Hong Kong, or maybe the world….’返回搜狐，查看更多