Personal World Map by Roxana Torre

http://www.personalworldmap.org/

The growth and expansion of multiple news outlets and accesibility of the Internet sometimes fools us into believing the world is "shrinking," that we have legitimate access to information and knowledge from around the world. Roxana Torre's personal world map is a reminder of the legitimate restraints placed on an individual's worldview by the realities of time, space and monetary constraints. The work is an interactive map, where the world is distorted around a chosen "center" to fit the "traveler's" time and budget contraints. That information is compared with legitimate flight data to create a personal world map which displays just how much of the planet the user actually has physical access to.