Jeremy Wood
White Horse Hill GPS Model & Video Screenshots, Nine minite GPS drawing documentary, 2002
WHITE HORSE HILL
1:1000 Scale Model
By Hugh Pryor and Jeremy Wood
Location: White Horse Hill in Uffington, Oxfordshire, UK
Date: 16/07/2002- 08/08/2002 Track Length: 43 km (26.7 miles)
White Horse Hill GPS Drawing Archive - www.gpsdrawing.com/gallery/maps/whh-model.htm
The model is a scaled representation of 43 km of GPS tracks of methodical walks over the area round White Horse Hill. A nine minute video documentary about the model making process was produced in June 2005. It includes animations of the GPS tracks alongside time-lapse footage of the model being constructed.
The model is composed of forty three kilometres of methodical walks that are represented by the edges of the sculpted cardboard. The landscape surrounding the ancient White Horse Hill in Uffington was remapped with a new terrain of GPS drawing that captured a physical response the area.
The White Horse Hill Model refers to a history of geograms that can be traced back to the original Bronze Age chalk figures carved into the English landscape, and the Nasca Lines made in Ancient Peru. Their original shapes have eroded over time along with their intentions. They reveal signs, not entirely visible from the ground, that are projected towards the skies like symbols on a map to be seen by the gods.
