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Doodling toward home

"By the Sea'' (mural), by Ben Jundanian, at New Art Center, Newton, Mass., through Feb. 27, created for Uber Boston, 2015.

In this project,  Mr. Jundanian "engages with the aesthetics and iconography of maps to create an expansive and highly developed doodle....The piece's bustling roadways, bike paths, railroads and waterways converge on a point in the center of the wall, an indicator of home.''

One thinks of T.S. Eliot's line from his poem "East Coker,'': "In my end is my beginning.''

 

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