Architecture 1o1 part 1 booklet

Architecture 1o1

Part 1: From Nothingness To Place

Embarking on the journey ‌.

By Clare Lahiff (@clareuna)

Part 1: What I have learned Week 1 – Taking Pictures

#50000YearsAgo 3/101

The first thing I have learned is to look for nothingness. But I have found that nothing is nothing. Here my brown paper can be seen, inter alia, as a landscape of rises and depressions – an intimation of nature. All attempts to represent nothingness are intimations of nature.

Part 1: What I have learned Week 1 – Taking Pictures

#ThingsWithNoName 4/101

Things that have no name can be described as looking like something. Here my liquid on asphalt has been described as looking like a virus. Such a description is equivalent to a name. Just as nothing is nothing, nothing has no name.

Part 1: What I have learned Week 2 – Learning to sketch

#QuestionWithoutAnswer 7/101

This week I learned to overcome some of my inhibitions about drawing. I learned that perhaps I do have a right side to my brain despite a very dominant left side. I spent ages trying to replicate this boy’s nose and think I finally mastered it.

Part 1: What I have learned Week 2 – Learning to sketch

#SomePeopleTheyKnowThings 9/101

I think some part of my brain knows more than I know it knows and is capable of more than I am aware of. I am so happy with this image sketched without looking from across the room at a surgery of Chinese Medicine. If I could just loosen those inhibitions a little more ‌.

Part 1: What I have learned Week 3 – Making collages

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This week I learned to use and appreciate some apps such as Fractal Tree, Bazaart, PS Touch layers, Pic Collage and Glitche.

Above all I learned to experiment with a “what if” attitude and to welcome the results of serendipity.

Part 1: What I have learned Week 3 – Making collages

#BrianEnoSays 16/101

Finally, at the end of the week, I left serendipity behind and made a deliberate collage with which I was quite pleased. It seems that creative output can follow both conscious and sub-conscious impulses.

Part 1: What I have learned Week 4 – Observing the weather

#ExcuseMeWhile 17/101

This week I learned to really look at the world around me and to observe and represent the effects of different weather conditions. This included a blue cloudy sky rimmed by foliage seen through a kaleidoscope. I see the sky here, do you?

Part 1: What I have learned Week 4 – Observing the weather

#VoyageDansLaLune 21/101

Our representations of phenomena relating to the weather continued with sun, moon and rain.

We learned the fundamental difference between day and night. I saw the moon as firstly red (the sailor’s delight) and casting its glow on the landscape, then yellow, and finally, blue through a night-curtained window.

Part 1: What I have learned Week 5 – Shaping diagrams

#YourMindWill 22/101

This week I learned to look into my mind and at my body and where these are located in place. This diagram of my mind shows an imbalance between my worries and my joys. I now see that it fails to recognize the trivialities of life that occupy my mind for much of the time.

Part 1: What I have learned Week 5 – Shaping diagrams

#IfYouStartToThink 25/101

This day we merged mind and body into a single diagram and for this I appropriated the balance of the yin-yang symbol. Why does the body surmount the brain here?

So that the brain occupies the female part of the symbol, which appeals to me!

Part 2: What I have learned from others @caturinn

#BeSureYou

From @caturinn I learned the value of simplicity. Here lines of three different orientations (horizontal, diagonal to left and diagonal to the right) represent place, brain and body. What a brilliant conception!

Part 2: What I have learned from others @allav00

#WhatMakesTheDesert

From @allav00 I learned of the wonders of complexity. This beautiful image is complex but balanced and rewards the eye constantly as it roams over it. In this it puts me in mind of a Persian carpet.

Part 2: What I have learned from others @alexfontes_id

#IfYouStartToThink

From @alexfontes I learned what to aspire to. For me Alex’s work is faultless – neither too simple nor too complex and with beautiful colours, it always makes me wish I could have done that. I love the form of the central figure here - “feeling with intelligence, thinking with emotion”.

A memorable image!

Part 2: What I have learned from others @lucydipierro

#NoManIs

From @lucydipierro I learned about the effect of beauty and magic in imagery.

There is indeed magic in this image, with an unidentifiable three-dimensional form being replicated in fall through a mottled unevenly striated space.

Our multiple views of the phenomenon makes the space real and almost dizzying. I love it!

Part 2: What I have learned from others @b.pad

#NoManIs

For me, this image by @b.pad has just about everything– simplicity, complexity, beauty, magic. It invokes speculation and wonder as we follow the line to and up and about and off and on again Barbara’s island. Where is it? What is it? I want to go there!

Part 2: What I have learned from others @wadjin

#RomanceInManyDimensions

@wadjin has taught me much about the use of colour and the depiction of spirituality. Her work recalls the landscape-based art of the Aboriginal people of our country. In this work I see characteristic dot work and depiction of snake or river and waterholes. Overall the beautiful work reminds me of Klimt.

Part 2: What I have learned from others @dominikpfister

#BrianEnoSays

@dominikpfister taught me about the wonders of pure colour and about Yves Klein of whom I had never heard. What a truly gorgeous, elemental, faultless image.

I wish it were mine!

Part 2: What I have learned from others @ellepinancy

#IfYouStartToThink

This surreal image from @ellepinancy intrigued me. It is a great image showing feeling of thought and thinking of feelings. But how did she do the lettered figures? I experimented for hours and finally asked.

And @ellepinancy introduced me to the work of Jaume Plensa for which I thank her so much.

Part 2: What I have learned from others The wonderful people @Architecture101

#BrianEnoSays 16/101

You wonderful people @Architecture101 introduced to me to so many artists of whom I had never before heard. Here is my homage to one of those - Jiri Kolar. I had such fun doing this. It shows a work of a favourite artist Henry Moore surmounting a view of my city Canberra.

Part 3: My place

#BeSureYou 26/101

My place is multi-faceted. It is in my mind, my body, my home, my family, my community, my city, my country, my world.

I inhabit these simultaneously and constantly and they are a source of varying degrees of intimacy, succour and comfort as they radiate from mind to universe.

Part 3: My place

#StealingThingsIs 15/101

In the rays of “my special place” my garden is close to my heart. It’s been an unusually green summer here in Canberra this year and these shades of green were taken from multiple photos of my garden.

I have stolen from my #InsideNoOutside image to represent myself here.

Part 3: My place

#OnesDestination 24/101

More than any other part of “my special place� my home, my house is my destination. It is a small ordinary house in an ordinary street but it distinguishes itself from the others by being the source of the known, of peace, of comfort, of joy and succour.

It constantly calls to me.

Part 3: My place

#MyBusinessIs 20/101

Above my home, my family, my community is a brilliant blue sky. It is full of white fluffy clouds, fresh air, and the sight and sounds of many birds. It is rimmed by eucalyptus trees and the sun beats down fiercely from it. It is part of “my special place�.

Part 3: My place

#WhatMakesTheDesert 14/101

Below its blue sky my city is ringed by forested rocky mountains which at times appear blue and which are, on rare occasions, smattered by snow.

My mountains undulate into the distance with their forest of eucalypt trees, untouched except by occasional devastating fire. I love my mountains and they are part of “my special place�.

Part 3: My place

#HumanBehaviourFlows 29/101

Beyond the mountains of “my special place” lies my beautiful land of Australia surrounded by sea and watched over by Southern Cross. It is a land and people of contrasts and contradictions – desert and forest, hot and cold, good and bad, love and hate, beer barrels and boutiques. But it is in my heart and in my soul and part of my identity and my place.

Part 3: My place

#ThisWorldIs 31/101

Beyond my land lies the rest of the world (you, and your place, and your community, and your land, your plants, your seas) and beyond that lies the universe. I am part of these and these are part of me. All are part of “my special place�.

The Last Page Having embarked on this journey ‌.

Where to now?

Maybe I can learn to use red And to be less literal!