Sketches and quick sculptures are as important as projects. They’re stories that exist within a larger universe.
Topiary Sketches
Topiary Tango began as whimsical drawings of buildings whose form didn’t matter. I drew a blob and added windows. Done, a building. It had scale, material, and structure; the size of a building, made of leaves, supported by branches. Easy-peasy.
A colorful, hard shell with a gooey, soft center. Making toys with inflatables.
Inflatable Toy
How can an inflatable be housed within a container, and how can they transform each other to tell a little story? Does this carved 2x4 have wings or maybe it’s a happy tissue box? These are little dialogues between a hard shell and soft inflatable hidden inside.
Figgies for scale. They squat, they squiggle. Some are too big, others wear wigs.
Scale Figgies
The best part of making architectural drawings is populating them with denizens. Who are they, anyways? Each one has a unique shape, size, group of friends, relationship with their parents, aspirations, and et-ceteras. I play with these figures, drawing them outside of architecture, casting them in resin, and interpreting their movement.
Sometimes I draw blobs and figure out what they are later.
Anthropomorphized thought bubbles. Thought Bobbles..
Thought Bobbles
These are brief thoughts with a face. Akin to topiary buildings being conceived as blobs with windows, Thought Bobbles are anthropomorphized blobs. With a nose and two eyes, a speech bubble becomes a person. This is what they say, and how they move.
Tumbleweeds left to the wind’s devices - and that’s okay.
Tumbleweeds
The Four Wise Cattle are majestic creatures, but they need a constant stream of air to keep their heads up high. Tumbleweeds are destined to deflate. They begin their lives full of air, and then sail away wherever the wind carries them. No up, no down, no wrong, all right. They are in tune with their surroundings, just as I aspire to be.
