Dilni Abeyrathne

I am a rising cartographer, geographer, and artist seeking to meld mapmaking with explorations of human thought processes, sustainability, environmentalism, and society. I am also a graduate of the University of Kentucky with three Bachelor's degrees in Environmental & Sustainability Studies, Geography (with a minor in Mapping & GIS), and International Studies, and a Master's degree in Geography (with a certificate in Digital Mapping). During my years of undergraduate and graduate study, I engaged with several academic projects and commissions that utilized cartography, including making maps for the Documenting Racial Violence in Kentucky (DRVK) project, Mapshop, the Kentucky Geological Survey, and five independent commissions or professors across multiple universities (four of which have been or will be published).

My cartography seeks to meld art, metaphor, and mapmaking into a dive into unique human understandings of the world and the environment. I love mapping both the realistic and the fictional, and have experimented at mixing the two to create unique spatial realms. Aside from mapmaking, I'm an avid reader, writer, artist, and enjoy frolicking around in nature as much as possible, preferably among giant rocks and shifting forests.

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