this is a sketch i cooked up over the weekend embellished with some things that perhaps you had read my mind about?

as you know, i care very much about the endeavours of the wrk.grp and i want it to persist and grow and become more fruitful. i would like to initiate a discussion through the lens of roosevelt, which is not complete yet, about why the first phase of this project failed, which it clearly did, and how our working methods, our communications, and our expectations of one another can be tailored to make our productions satisfying to us and productive to the community we are seeking to contribute a different voice to. i know you all have both concerns and goals, share them.

jt: what are your current goals on ruseveldt?
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rapid fire conflation of prepositional sequences. will develop more precise relationships over this construct.

conducting bodies, con’t:

this drawing takes various formal icons culled from the conducting bodies drawings and begans to strew them across the site, overlapping and interspersing diverse functions and giving initial prepositional strings to thread them into one another. this one is specious in its consistency and grounding to previous discussed principles, but i just wanted to take a first stab at something, to ‘work through some things,’ and i will try to be less fast and loose in the future.

also might be interesting to drum up a discussion about the role or position of the renwick ruins in the project.

considering the notion of ‘ruins’ and casual mention of ‘traces’, both by visitors and the river, these maps display an interest in affecting the landscape of the island over time. taking advantage of the tidal motion of the ‘river’, alluvium is accreted around groynes, cables, nets, rip rap, etc, terraforming new features on southpoint gradually. i don’t foresee attemping to scuplt the island to such a degree that navigation on the river is blocked; the scale would be such that visitors would notice changes over time, and may take part in the sculpture. folks can place items/bouys which will be stirred/carried by the moving water/earth; the traces made by and upon these artifacts would reflect the marks of time on the ruins. as new areas appear and sink, folks will discover new vistas towards the u.n., landings for a dinghy, or a place to cup some east river water to their lips. i hope to peep into this w/ some sections (not to scale), to follow in this page later this week.

i am starting a drawing right now that is what i am referring to as ‘a non euclidean stroll amongst conducting bodies’, it is a series of perspectival views that pick out synecdochic components of the spaces (eg. a private box for the theater, a materials storage locker for the studio) and place them in relationships through which they blend into one another, as in a pictorial cognitive map, and are then given spatial potential by a series of punctuations and prepositions.

i am starting by just composing sketch thumbnail views and then constructing them on a single sheet and developing their relationships. i see these moments as anchor points of not only the space they describe but also a series of stations in the building that can be seen from pertinent other bodies and linked spatially, visually, materially, etc. these points are also where synaesthetic suites coalesce. each sketch i put up will have the prompt and qualitative description of the space i was trying to approach.

i have been preparing a base drawing that deals with a couple of issues: read more…