Paradise transit map

An artwork by David Frimark

This work reimagines the idea of “paradise” as a public transit system. Instead of a timeless, spiritual realm, paradise is rendered here as a city to be navigated — complete with subway lines, transfer stations, and tourist attractions. The familiar logic of a metro map collides with the absurd promise of eternal bliss.

Stations such as Eternal Youth Beach, Throne of God, Father’s House, and Ultimate Fantasy Mall sit side by side, flattening sacred, mythical, and consumerist symbols into the same visual language. In this world, salvation can be reached as easily as a short transfer, and the most profound human longings — immortality, love, pleasure, redemption — are reduced to stops along a colorful line.

The Paradise Metro Map is both playful and unsettling: it exposes how human imagination often trivializes transcendence, and how utopia itself can be made absurd when forced into systems we already know. Here, paradise becomes just another network to commute through — efficient, colorful, and strangely ordinary.