Endemic Architecture



Drawings That Blush is a drawing series exploring an interest in drawings that eschew the conventions of fill, line, and geometric description. They are entitled Drawings That Blush because, as they eschew the rigors of conventional architectural drawing they elicit a bashfulness about becoming architectural artifacts. Where normative architectural drawings present themselves as assured and secure, these drawings blush and are not so sure of themselves as architectural artifacts. Composed by mixing ink, dye, salt, wax, and water, these drawings are better characterized by intensities of color and fluid material qualities than they are by shared metrics. The color and material idiosyncrasies are important to the compositions as they enable unanticipated intricacies and unforeseen continuities where zooming in or out reveals related effects that allude to possible multi-scalar readings. I think of these Drawings That Blush as analogous to a garden; they may be subjectively pruned or grafted as one visually wonders through them finding moments of aesthetic pleasure. The introduction of global symmetry implies coherence to an otherwise idiosyncratic material composition, while also making possible the interpretation of a whole, borrowing from Rorschach ink blots.

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