2014
Pencil on butter paper
White gesso on foam structure
Monsoon Section
1200 x 500mm
Site Section
1450 x 450mm
Well Section
740 x 500mm
Brick Facade Study
750 x 500mm
River Front elevation
1150 x 410mm
The School building is devised and broken into non retinal cellular fragments, each cell unfolds and is transposed allowing the new work to become subsumed into the local Village pattern of existence.
The moist mud brick belongs to the land but is resistant to ideas. This material resistance may only survive within the local as an avoidance of any ideological stance, a slowing of time against the relentless technological onslaught. Mud, dwelling place and landscape fuse as non symbolic elements. In India foot can still feel not being shod, the dirt landscape forms a continuity from exterior world to the inner intimate world, a compacted mud universe. Dirt will always be more interesting than cleanliness.