THE ART OF LOSING YOURSELF TO FIND YOUR WAY
YELLOW WIG ALCHEMY
Map of Bartholomew London
40 x 31 inches
Mixed Media on Found Map, 2025
IT VOIDS is an ongoing art project by Marc Craig that explores the paradox of losing oneself to find a more authentic creative path. Built on cycles of instinct, disruption, and renewal, it embraces getting lost—deliberately “fucking it up”—as a way to break through constraint and uncover deeper truths.
Central to the project is a rhythm Craig describes as Dream, Make, and the Void. The Dream is an intuitive surge, rich with raw ideas and feeling. The Make brings those impulses into contact with form and judgement, intentionally disrupting them through overworking or unsettling images that seem too resolved. The Void then becomes a space of renewal, where plans dissolve and something more honest can surface. This process echoes Craig’s lived experience with Borderline Personality Disorder, where intense mood shifts and fragile identity make collapse and rebuilding a daily reality. Here, unraveling is not failure but a chance to let instinct return.
The use of maps is a deliberate nod to psychogeography and the project’s ethos. Each work begins on an old Ordnance Survey sheet or discarded tourist plan—documents meant to guide movement through external spaces. By layering, distorting, and instinctively marking over these familiar geographies, Craig transforms them into personal cartographies, capturing emotional and psychological terrains rather than physical ones.
IT VOIDS invites viewers to step into these altered maps, to see how getting lost—both on paper and within oneself—can become a way of finding direction. It’s an open terrain, urging deeper exploration into the unpredictable landscapes of art, memory, and mind.
