CAKE

This project was conceived as a book and developed from a focused sketching study that incorporated live models, found objects, transfers, reproductions, text, manipulated Polaroid photographs, cloth and string.  The project examined the various elements within a master drawing as found in the city and as mocked up in the studio.  Drawings were done on paper sacks, vellum, deconstructed photographs, watercolor paper, pages of pulp novels and clear acetate.  The final composition is layers of drawings separated by wool felt dividers in a plaster box, cast in colored layers and lined with a finely striped pink and brown satin.  The box is capped with a plaster lid into which brown ribbons have been cast and tied as one might wrap a gift.  The drawings address issues of memory, desire, separation, ritual, commemoration and making.  This piece was exhibited in a specially constructed room in the Member’s Gallery at the Architectural Association in London.