Robert Szucs is a digital cartographer turned artist who saw the potential to turn nature’s patterns into contemporary artwork. This ocean drainage map was a months-long project, that included “a ton of manual work,” including cleaning data, figuring out how to categorize millions of lines into a handful of ocean drainages, and then zooming in along the coastlines and manually checking for and fixing errors and inconsistencies. “I think the most surprising thing about the map is how far south the Arctic Ocean’s drainage basin reaches. I wasn’t expecting it to reach the contiguous United States in multiple places.”