The Tranquility of Doom (Architectural Heads) - pencil on paper
2019 - 2025
This series of drawings was first conceived during a visit to a friend's flat in Berlin. There was a framed poster on the wall that I had noticed out of the corner of my eye during dinner, that I imagined was of a face of some kind against a dark background, something like a masked samuri. I didn't look directly at the image as I was talking with the other guests but in my head I was forming a version of what I believed was in the picture. Something about the not-knowing intrigued me, and the image in my head seemed perfect in its vague structure, so when I glanced at the actual poster and saw that it was not at all what I had first imagined, I decided I should attempt to recreate this ghost of an image for myself. These drawings followed over the years and the half rendered tragedy and sadness that I mis-remembered from the poster has guided them. There is an architectural quality in the mechanical or technical details of the masks, which have become more like head-dresses as the series grows.
