Artist Statement (Interior Perspective, right)

In Interior Perspective, I created a room I thought I might see one day. It's a little haphazard, with all the elements that I tried to fit in, but it has some of the idea of what I was thinking about. I took inspiration from Parisian buildings and apartments, as well as European architecture in general. I used this inspiration in the windows, door, and ceiling beams. I thought of this room as the ground floor to an apartment building, a stop before a destination. Perhaps the landlord or landlady doesn't pay much attention to it- there's a random chair brought for someone at some point and never put away. There's a shelf, maybe dusty, like the side table in the corner. The rug is old, and crooked, but somehow the room feels familiar, like a warm memory. Perhaps there's sunlight coming in, lighting the lazy dust particles that float on the rays. The door is open, left by an inhabitant in a rush- to go in or out, no one can say.

To make this piece, I used regular paper (not watercolour or Bristol board). I used a 2HB pencil to draw the lines, because I didn't want them to smudge or be too dark. I also used a ruler so that my lines were mostly straight and made sense with the perspective that I was using.

I was using a one-point perspective, which means I had to create a vanishing point and make most of my lines connect to that point. It was partly a difficult process, because I had to use a ruler for everything and be careful about how the lines intersected and if they were parallel. I had trouble with this, because if one of my lines was off (ex. a window wasn't parallel to the floor, or a line didn't go into a corner but slightly to the side), then it would mess up something else I drew. I had to be very careful, and it was a little confusing when I had something that wasn't exactly parallel or perpendicular, but tilted or slanted. I started with a simple room, but as I added tiles, furniture, windows, and a door, it started to gain a personality and a mood instead of a mundane square. If I were to take more steps with this project, I would probably add colour.