Fragments {and a Cashmere Wrap}

Fragments {and a cashmere wrap} The cashmere wrap finally arrived in the mail so much weighs on this stole ‘opportunity a thief makes’ he said before giving me homework – how we love. “A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep” Saul Bellow A lot weighs [...]

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Thinking Deconstructivism in a Canyon

” In recent years , the modern understanding of social responsibility as functional program has been superseded by a concern for context. But contextualism has been used as an excuse for mediocrity, for a dumb servility within the familiar. Since deconstructivist architecture seeks the unfamiliar within the familiar, it displaces the context rather than acquiesce [...]

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Rain of Frogs [fragments, poems, movie lines]

    The Pretty Parking Lot   I have dreamt of perfect poems faded like dewdrops upon awakening   About mice and buildings built by men   Cities are sentences that haunt me   Book thieves, foreign movies… the line is thin between memories and reverie   The fog has lifted the rain felt soft [...]

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Love Quatraine

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Collages with Papa’

  These collages start with a drawing my father sketches out on thin notebook paper; I then proceed to create possible scenarios. And this is the conversation at the end of the day with my mother, a retired judge — which i have entitled: Talking about art with my (practical, realist) mother [Me , retiring [...]

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Fragments of Dreams

This has started to be a weekly blog, and I am not too happy about it. This Quarter has been so intense in a stupendous way: I am involved in a myriad of exciting projects at the school and became involved in new committees – and that has meant less free time, but an overall [...]

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Collages in Art and Architecture

I have been thinking and wanting to explore collages again since this summer, when I was so inspired by Hector Perez and his students’ work with SoCal Ex–but not until today I finally acted on that impulse. I have two works done and one almost complete. Two to share, and one part of a larger, [...]

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Steven Holl: Sketches, Watercolors, Collages

All images are from a research project completed by my student, Mariam Thomas, on Architects as Artists and their rendering/design techniques. The relationship between architecture and art, and the study of practitioners who are also artists (with the mindframe of artists), whose design process transcends design practices and pragmatism to include enlightment, discoveries and art- wonderings [...]

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Class Notes: Thinking in Axonometric

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Les Mots Et L’Amour {Words and Love}

From St Loup’s secrets & lies: All you have to do is take these lies and make them true… …manier les mots, les soupeser, en explorer le sens, es une manière de faire l’amour, surtout lorsque ce qu’on écrit est inspiré par quelqu’un, ou promis à quelqu’un. Marguerite Yourcenar Quoi? L’Éternité, Paris, Gallimard, 1988, p. [...]

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Rear Facing Window

From Rear Facing Window Alfred Hitchcock Lisa: I wish I were creative. Jeff: You are. You’re great at creating difficult situations.

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SoCal – E>< : Exploratory Design Workshop

Something eye-opening occurred at my school yesterday. I attended the exhibit for SoCal -Ex : Exploratory Design Workshop, completed by Professor Hector Perez and his students. Here are the specific of the Workshop: 6 Explorers Andrea Benavides/Alfredo Melly/Henry Palomino/Charles Santamaria/Nancy Tariga 25 Days July 12-August 5 10 Field Trips San Diego/La Jolla/Del Mar/San Juan Capistrano/Los Angeles/Santa [...]

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Archeological Find

The Sun By Mary Oliver Have you ever seen anything in your life more wonderful than the way the sun, every evening, relaxed and easy, floats toward the horizon and into the clouds or the hills, or the rumpled sea, and is gone– and how it slides again out of the blackness, every morning, on [...]

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Sections of the Brokenhearted [Find another Sun]

Soundtrack of  ‘Apart’ Soundtrack of  ‘The Center cannot hold’ Soundtrack of ‘Spooning (one. is broken)’ More on Gordon Matta-Clark

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Jealousy Ouvertures

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Virtual Yoga (Human Landscapes) and finally, the definition of diagram

The image above aptly illustrates the process behind diagramming, which is one of summarizing and and rendering a concept more abstract, more immediately communicable. Abstract in this sense is intended as ‘ reduced to the essential’.  Diagrams are, according to Joe Nicholson: 1. a simple drawing showing the basic shape, lay-out, or workings of something [...]

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Henna Tattoo [a first]

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Words…Words…Words…..Swords

It is said that the tragedy of Hamlet is consumed between ‘words’ and ‘swords’. Words, words, words murmur the duelling characters… Some may say words are swords, of the most insidious kind, and that that which is uttered – or written- has a potential for far more damage than a weapon meant to plunge in [...]

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Of Fragments, inspiration, and being remarkable.

F R A G M E N T S is a series that I am starting to ‘salvage’ pieces of artworks in my digital trunk. I sometimes find old artwork that, while it may not work perfectly on the whole, still contains interesting textures or details. The image above is part of a larger digital [...]

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