Architectural Inventions

  These works reveal how drawing was my primary mode of expression for a decade. In them, architecture is employed as a metaphor for the human body. Water towers convey water to a community through unseen pipes, much like a vascular system distributes blood throughout a body. Like the Greek myth of the sculptor Pygmalion whose marble sculpture came to life, I aimed to transform these architectural remnants into living things. 

Inspired by the Deluge drawings by the 16th century Italian painter Jacopo di Pontormo, these reimagined buildings act as bodies in dynamic physical interaction. The forms writhe and twist like vines or lovers, and press against each other and entwine in a responsive manner. 

Instead of completing every form to the same degree of refinement, some passages remain in a gestural state while others are more obsessively rendered . I wanted to highlight the process of drawing as an act of transformation and show the viewer early and later stages of development within the same picture. 

Like a mason, I build these forms brick by brick. While that bricklayer requires static and stable form, these drawings teeter on the precipice between construction and entropy