Hand-drawn Beijing: electric cars and imaginary temples – in pictures

Coal station

British artist Gareth Wood, AKA Fuller, borrows the tools of cartography to capture the ‘sense of a place’. In 2017, he arrived in Beijing and over the course of several months walked 1,385 kilometres, working his way into the heart of the city from its outermost sixth ring road. To fight air pollution in the capital, authorities have shut several coal plants in the city, and this winter was one of the city’s cleanest in years. ‘My friends were so happy to see electric blue skies throughout the winter just gone. I wanted to mark this achievement for the city,’ he says

Photograph: Fuller/Gareth Wood