summer music

Paul Kalkbrenner- Aaron

postcards from Dalston

Dalston, Hackney is one of many sites I've studied. What better way to illustrate your first impression of a place than to draw postcards?

in conflict

made this not only to explore the material qualities but also to express some kind of conflict of interest.

6 East Building

One of my first attempts to survey and then draw out (here 1:20) a building. This is a drawing of a staircase is from the "6 East Building" by Alison and Peter Smithson. I was intrigued by how the platforms changed as you climbed it as well as the size of the windows. An "inspiring" staircase if you can put it that way, as the scenery was not about dreadful repetition.

nostalgic-music-Tuesday

This song was responsible for my main emo-outlet as a teenager. Like the "My Chemical Romance" of the nineties. But ofcourse so much better. Turn it up and spray out those tears.

(btw the soundtrack to my favourite film "Good Will Hunting")

for my friend

I know you're probably my only reader so I'm dedicating this song to you. Remember when we first saw the video? Already a night to giggle about.

Lucignano d'Asso

alright, time to show some of my own work.

Pretty chuffed about this 1:500 plaster model. It is of Lucignano D'Asso, a village in Tuscany. I made it by cutting out the 130 contour lines in card (by hand, so fantastic social life that week), gluing them together with some buildings. Then I covered it with silicone and ta-da! I had a mould. Filled it with plaster and this is "Le result".

Lucignano d’Asso is situated on the top of a hill, the houses are curved around the hills like the necklace around a neck. Lucignano consists of mostly abandoned buildings, some rented out houses and a shop.

Farming in italy was for a long time run as an aristocracy where individual farmers rented land instead, when buying was too expensive or impossible, by working on the land and giving most profits to the owner. The farmer and his family would be left with a bare minimum to survive, and was not given the chance to develop his market as his payment was set.

During the 1960’s industrialism found Italy as most other western European countries. Factories were built in the larger cities and farming was also industrialized by machines. The machines required less workers and competition between farms got harder. The farms got fewer and larger and a lot of the farmers were forced into the cities to work in factories. This is what changed Lucignano’s population from more than 300 to less than 50 in the 1960-70’s.

That's it for now.

Oh don't you worry, there will be more thrilling, mind-blowing, enthrawling information and work about my dear Lucignano d'Asso.