Idea 5-Map With Platform Mounts

Machu Pichu Trail Map With Platform Mounts

Our client and her fiancee decided to hike the Machu Pichu Trail in Peru, South America and took a lot of photos on the way. What we did to frame this event was to mount the map on black foam board first and glue it onto a black suede matboard. Then, we took her photos and arranged them in order of their ascent and arrayed them around the perimeter of the map. We mounted them onto black acid-free board and then put foam board risers underneath each, recessed so as not to be visible. The photos were mounted on progressively higher platforms as they ascended the trail. In this way, the photos appear to float over the map. We used a shadowbox-depth, cherry finished frame by Nurre-Caxton and used Conservation Clear glass to keep it all from fading. Mat board is Carbon Black Suede by Crescent.

One really nice thing about this technique is that it can be used to create large, photo montages, with photos overlapping each other at different levels. It doesn't need to look like a boring grid layout.

Design and execution by Brian Flax.