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Latitude and Longing: Cartography of Desire

Art by Neil Dvorak, Ed Jones, and L. D. Schneider

Map the border between appetite and desire or survey yearning across the body that hungers. What is the geography of longing? Consider these comparative anatomies: three inspired by Ed Jones’s computer-generated medical illustrations, retro-rendered in ink by L. D. Schneider, and Neil Dvorak’s vast and yet intimate imagination-scapes.

The Blue Piece (2007), excerpt, by Neil Dvorak
Original is 30” x 40”, gesso, pen and ink, pencil, bottle, string, on paper



Route Seven, Quadrate Lobe, by Ed Jones and L. D. Schneider
The Blue Piece (2007), excerpt, by Neil Dvorak
Original is 30” x 40”, gesso, pen and ink, pencil, bottle, string, on paper

Torso Cross-section (2007), by Ed Jones and L. D. Schneider
Ochre in Quadrants (2005), excerpt, by Neil Dvorak
Original is 7’ x 9’, gesso, various inks, pen, pencil, tooth, on paper


Ochre in Quadrants (2005), by Neil Dvorak, 7’ x 9’, gesso, various inks, pen, pencil, tooth, on paper

Cranium in Quadrants (2007) by Ed Jones and L. D. Schneider
Neil Dvorak earned a BA in Fine Arts from Binghamton University in 2005. A native of White Plains, New York, he recently ventured west to San Francisco. There he explores Fictional Cartography, mappings he terms “Functioning Artifacts.” These charts encourage a formalist foray into the imaginary. Neil opens another path into that space on his website: www.cresinence.com. Ed Jones studied medical illustration at the University of Michigan, retired to teach in the New York City Public Schools, retired from that to freelance as a portrait painter and now lives in Youngstown, Ohio. L. D. Schneider earned a BA the University of Michigan, Honors College, an MA from Binghamton University, and is currently working on a Ph.D. focused on dream visions in English Medieval and Early Modern Literature, and on an illustrated manuscript about girlhood in a gas station.
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