The end of my sketchbook project
I have finished my sketchbook, I have drawn one drawing a day over the last 67 days, a way of compiling new imagery without being precious. I call these drawings starting points and now I will endeavour to make new work from these starting points. However first I want to read about two architectural theories ‘the fold’ and ‘other geometries’ I have been thinking of these since doing a workshop with Rupert Hartley last term, I have no idea what they really mean but I am intrigued. I am also thinking about the tyranny of the page.
What then is the problem of “other geometries”—- “geometry” in what sense and other to what? We can talk, for example, of the geometry of a novel or a character in a novel, or else of another person, someone in fear or in pain, with a toothache. Such are the geometries of living —- the geometry of a young Japanese woman walking down a Parisian street or a Dutchman made to feel clumsy, elephantine, in a traditional Japanese house or inn. Each of us has such geometries, composed of lines of different kinds, coming to us in different ways, which make up the arrangements or dispositions of space —- the “assemblages” —–in which we move and relate to one another. But how then do such geometries of living come together, intersecting and interfering with one another in the space of a city or a building?
John Rajchman, Constructions, 1997.
