Bucks: The deers of Milwaukee

Mar 29

A series of mosaic portraits of Milwaukee Bucks players was created using the actual map of the Wisconsin metropolis as a structural grid.

Bucks: The deers of Milwaukee

Following my 2018 "Made in Athens" Giannis' portrait, based on the actual map of the Greek capital, I created a new mosaic portrait this time based on the actual map of Milwaukee. Thousands of photos from the Wisconsin metropolis have been used to portray Giannis, the Greek Freak, the guy who was born and raised in my old neighborhood in Athens and is conquering Milwaukee and the whole USA.

Even if Giannis has become the absolute basketball superstar of the Milwaukee Bucks, no champion is ever won by just one player. So I decided to honor as many Bucks as I could find the time to work for. So far, I have finished the portraits of half the team: Giannis Antetokounmpo, Eric Bledsoe, Khris Middleton, Ersan İlyasova, Tony Snell, Nikola Mirotić, Brook Lopez, and Malcolm Brogdon. Hope I can find more time to finish them all 16 and the coaches.

Experimenting with the relationship of a person with a place, a physical location, is something I have been interested in for many years. I love maps and what they represent. Maps, and especially city maps, are the result of the synergy between nature and humanity. So I am finding maps to be the perfect grid for building my mosaics. Of course, respecting every single detail of a map is really challenging, but dedicating time and effort to surpass limits is what has excited me about mosaic making for more than 20 years.
I want to thank the countless photographers who took these Creative Commons-licensed photos of Milwaukee that I have used. Without them, I couldn't have completed these mosaics.