What do you see? I see a 3D drawing of a house. It has a door on the right not leading to a specific room, several staircases, and a pencil sketch of a house. The layered space in the artwork is divided up into rooms but not in the typical fashion of how an architect might draw a blueprint, it's more complicated and feels unpredictable. I’m looking at the subject of the artwork, a house, from several vantage points at the same time. It’s like turning the house inside out, dividing it up, then selecting to put only some of the pieces back together.
The sketch prompt is to picture the space inside your home. The walls and rooms opened up like a floor plan. Now take these lines, spaces, walls, doors, and windows, and draw them together from several points of view in the same drawing. Hint: look up, down, all around, inside, and outside at the same time.
Time to TALK.
Can you imagine that the artist actually took over a house in Pittsburgh? You can walk into the house, up and down the staircases, and peer into rooms. He created a house installation where a blueprint just can’t go. Thousands of found objects were used to create the feeling of this artwork but much bigger and grander. He built and cut the walls and floors, ceilings. He cut into the wooden floor on the 3rd floor and continued all the way down to the first, where visitors see another perspective, the bottom of the house. You ask yourself while turning a corner, what’s next!?!