Solid and Void
Objective: Explore space and the figure-ground relationship as it translates from two-dimensional to three-dimensional
Beginning with Stuart Davis’s painting, I reworked the image to showcase my understanding of color, contours, time, movement, void, and depth. After creating a 3D model of the reworked painting, I further transformed it by adding dimension above my model in a 19 x 24 axonometric drawing using pencil. I built up schema walls, vertical cuts and a vertical surface to define three formal spaces.
“The essence of the matter is to develop a critical understanding of where to draw. We use the term, where, specifically. It does not relate to a geographical place or a location where, perhaps, one selects a subject to draw. Rather, it is the placement of the drawing in representational space, somewhere between the artist/ designer and the thing.”
-Darrel Fields, UC Berkeley Architecture 11A