‘hydra-bus!’, 2012 16.02 miles in 2 hours, 43 minutes, 49 seconds all images © michael wallace

baltimore, maryland, USA-based cyclist and artist michael wallace, has developed an portfolio comprised entirely of bike-traced city-scale sketches. the artist says of his work, ‘GPX riding is my general term for using a GPS device to track and record my location while riding my bicycle. in short, I use GPS technology to record where I go in a planned effort to create massive images.‘ his ‘virtual geographic adventures’, in their completion, range anywhere from near 17 miles to as little as 5 wallace moves about the city in a strategic path in order to develop resemblances of various symbols, events, and characters.

GPS drawing on bike by michael wallace ‘pagoda!’, 2012 11.43 miles in 1 hour, 52 minutes, 53 seconds

GPS drawing on bike by michael wallace ‘super conductor’, 2012 12.32 miles in1 hour, 40 minutes, 51 seconds

GPS drawing on bike by michael wallace ‘hurricane irene’, 2012 10.36 miles in 1 hour, 39 minutes, 30 seconds

GPS drawing on bike by michael wallace ‘GPX mythwallogy’, 2012 9.72 miles in 1 hour, 56 minutes, 49 seconds

GPS drawing on bike by michael wallace ‘titanic’, 2012 7.58 miles in 1 hour, 37 minutes, 38 seconds

GPS drawing on bike by michael wallace ‘big rig!’, 2012 13.22 miles in 2 hours, 18 minutes, 13 seconds

GPS drawing on bike by michael wallace ‘los dias de los muertos’, 2012 8.99 miles in 1 hour, 42 minutes, 59 seconds

GPS drawing on bike by michael wallace ‘grapes’, 2012 7.10 miles in 1 hour, 21 minutes, 37 seconds

GPS drawing on bike by michael wallace ‘lunar lander’, 2012 13.58 miles in 2 hours, 22 minutes, 17 seconds

GPS drawing on bike by michael wallace ‘terminator’, 2012 6.16 miles in 54 minutes, 45 seconds

via the creators project