February 2012 Archives

"Self-portraits catch your eye. They seem to be doing it deliberately. Walk into any art gallery and they look back to you from the crowded walls as if they had been waiting to see you. The eyes in a million portraits gaze at you too, following you around the room, as the saying goes, but rarely with the same heightened expectation. Come across a self-portrait and there is a frisson of recognition, something like changing upon your own reflection."

I am working on how it will move through the entrance door, the door rearrange the city of the studio in order to match with the perspective of the viewer werever we are standing. Like the eyes on a self-portrait

The project introduces the idea of the self-portrait in architecture as the studio and room of an artist (the studio and the self portrait are the room and the universe). The studio of an artist is a space for the production of the artists work in were the artist display not just the final pieces as in a museum or a gallery but it is in close relationship with its creator and the space in were the object was created. The artist creates its own context in his studio, the studio is the space in where the artist collects and arrages through his work how he sees himself and how he understands himself within the world.

 The self -portrait is not only the final object and image that is exposed in a gallery, the self-portrait is a space and place in where the artist situates himself in order to be able to see himself  and the world how he wants to see it, the final object is in itself a studio and space in were we project ourselves and is never complete until we die. (very dramatic!!)

 The artist of this project is the city, so the project is the self-portrait of the city, the city is the space and studio and we are the ones that create the self-portrait as we inhabit the space of the city. The Lost City or The City With No Name found himself as a ruin in a "dessert" and from the flattened image he/she found is strating to re-build the context of this room. The studio of the city is the void or emptiness of a dessert or field, the blankness of a wall or even just in the mind, it is in the ground and 10000 meters high, it is arbitrary, capricious, ureasonable, unsupported. (hmmmmmm help!)

 The technical part of the project introduces the idea of how to build the context of a flat image through projection and how to create a context through the room. (how the room expands outwards and how the outside projects inwards) the frame is the experience and The "Self" (or idea of self or person) is the context of the project. Through understanding the movement of the viewer through the space and the idea of entry I will explore how the self-portrait transforms as we travel the space of the studio and depending on how many views we open and close we build and create our self.portraits and build our own city... (pffff bad bad bad...but throwing ideas)

I am not happy with this text but I want to start thinking about what I am going to say....