I painted this map as a gift for a friend who
lives in Smithers, British Columbia, yet works in Yellowknife,
Northwest Territories. The map portrays the imaginary journey he
would make if he had to walk to work. I employed an unusual
projection to capture the northeast-southwest trend of the
route, an oblique transverse Mercator projection along the Great
Circle route that passes through both Smithers and Yellowknife.
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