Written for the Council platform and published on January 22nd.; a more extended text on three topics closely related to our built environment.
Martin Pot: Architecture: place, atmosphere and agency.
Auteur archieven: martinpot
“do buildings add value, or not?”
Entropy is a most interesting principle; in particular when it comes to building and/or architecture. Ronald Rovers wrote a fine text on this topic; more or less in line with my own recent text for Council.
Now, do buildings add value, or not ? (entropy)
’the dream’
photo, ink, charcoal, 2024
15 x 42 cm.
‘presence in what’
photo, acrylic ink, 2024
10 x 30 cm.
‘remnants 2’
photo, acrylic ink., 2024
15 x 21 cm.
‘remnants 1’
photo, charcoal, acrylic ink. 2024
15 x 21 cm.
‘crust and layer’
paper, acrylic ink, charcoal, 2024
30 x 13 cm.
“The fractal face of the earth reveals itself as fragile, often ravaged. The earth turns its ravaged visage towards the sky; all manner of populations, armies, industry, tourism and invasions, have changed it into a valley of tears. Pillaged by those who pass but do not stay, its ruins are all we see. All we have before us are the remnants of a waste land, we live amongst memories.”
Michel Serres, ’the Five Senses’.
’the path up’
charcoal, aquarel, ink. 2024
20 x 30 cm.
‘damaged earth’
charcoal, ink, aquarel, 2024
20 x 30 cm.