mapping the sense about istiklal street

the main thick line indicates the most crowded and colorful street of istanbul (i think even of turkey) and also the street everybody has a story to design or express about, where is istiklal street in beyoglu.

my sense when i am on the istiklal street generally focuses on the existense of diffent typed churches and the feeling about where they are. i mean i usually like to know that there are lots of them and this cultural diversity i feel when i am on the street makes me happy. so, i tried to make a mapping about the churches of istiklal street which you can reveal by chasing the main line and counting the streets. by counting the nearby street lines it looks now like anybody can reveal them from their 'other located' places if oneself wants to.

and to differ the church locations among each other, i preferred using their own national language on the map by using the word 'church' into their languages like armenian, greek, latin and chaldean.

the beginning and ending circles shown in the red colored indicates the taksim and tunnel squares that start and finish the main thick line as istiklal street.

and lastly i used some free transform distortions to give the mapping some kind of different dimensioned perception. this mapping's story is like this.

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