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Pencil on paper, 14 x 20, November 2019

I started this piece because I was expressing my interest in architecture. I wanted to design a building and I wanted it to be meticulously detailed and symmetrical. I spent a long time planning and measuring the scene, more focused on detail and symmetry than content. The ideas for buildings were kind of spur of the moment ideas loosely based on things I’ve seen or pictures I’ve taken, most of the work really went into detail. I was pretty satisfied with the near-finished result, but I couldn’t decide what to do for the centerpiece. After a long time of thinking, I decided to go a completely different route. So instead of drawing painstakingly straight lines and intense detail, I drew a pagoda completely off-hand, making sure to include “human error” to set it aside from the rest. The end result was pretty satisfying.