Assignment 2
Map(in) Igualada


The second half of the project is "Dibujos sin Papel" or "Drawings without Paper" 


We have been reacting to the characteristics and systems of mapping as well as to understanding, through these, Pinós and Miralles' Cemetery at Igualada. We have been expressing the site and its representations by mediating them through our cultural understanding; as conditions that are recognized and structured through/as language and through/as representation. The maps and investigations are beginning to develop organizing strategies of how the the Cemetery's forms and spaces are not only read and understood but also how they are qualitatively charged. 
The next part of our investigation continues some of the representational strategies and their links with the development of the maps. It also consists, most importantly, of thinking these representations within the parameters of two-dimensionality but, in this case, as three-dimensional objecs; in other words, as drawings without paper. The attempt is not to create... "drawdels" but something that expands the possible tasks within drawings.


For this assignment, you should create two of these drawings according to the following parameters: 


          - tectonic: consisting materially of thin pieces of wire, wood, string, etc.; joints and material 
            changes should be expressed and explored; coverings (fabric, vellum, etc.) can be used; etc.
          - sterotomic: consisting materially of heavier pieces of material (wood, plaster, wax, plastiline, 
            cement, etc.) formed through single gestures (i.e. casting), through accretion (additive 
            accumulation of similar or different materials), and/or through carving




Working with wire, these were my first exercises in handling the material: