Letter: Book Proposal Date: October 7, 2014 Title: The Fantasy of Things of Order1
Davi Weber AA MA HCT
Dear Fictional Publisher of photography, fine art, and limited edition art books, My objective is for architecture enthusiasts and architects to reconsider confrontation within the private sphere. Promoters of modern domesticities allude to individual release, yet their demands compromise their seemingly virtuous intentions. The photographs within the overall project contemplate the possibility of other spaces, of reflections that truly allow for individual encounter. 1: INTRO
FREE MIND FOR BETTER THINGS. NORMALIZATION AND STANDARDIZATION FOR LIBERATION.2 I propose to you a sixty-eight-page soft-cover square book that includes a title page (with insertion of loose translucent rectangular paper with editors sentence), copyright page, nine black and white photographs of private spaces, three short texts (printed here), and fifty-two blank pages.3
2: CONSTITUENT PARTS
MIND IS FREE TO CONCENTRATE ON AFFAIRS OF THE SPIRIT. THINK AGAINST WHITE NOT BLACK BACKDROPS.4 The layout of the photography publication is choreographed such that a majority of the photographs and text appear in a recto format with image on the right and a blank verso page on the left. However, a rupture occurs on page fifteen. Two images occupy two successive pages.
2: LAYOUT
SOCIOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF MAN TO BE CONSIDERED. THIN WHITE CURTAINS MODERATE LIGHT AND HEAVY DARK PLAIN MATERIALS FOR HARMONY AND DIGNITY.5 Fantasies float in the voids while simultaneously anxiety looms in this constructed uncertainty as one anticipates a reprieve.
3: HUMAN ELEMENT
In other words, while the private gravitates towards authoritarian ordinances of standardization and color regulation within the boundaries of the replicated page, the book’s rhythm is interrupted by examples of abstracted text and image that reexamines the notion of interiority. If you would like to discuss this further, as I hope you do, please contact me.
Sincerely, Davi Weber 4: CONCLUSION
DAVI WEBER
The Architectural Association School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES