Brixton. Not the London one, this is
in Joburg. I used to have a friend there, and it was walking distance from my
room in Vrededorp.
For some reason I went looking around on street view
and remembering what the neighbourhood is like. I saved a bunch of snapshots
and then decided to do rapid sketch overs.
It’s not a deep study. Just trying to get a feel and
resurface my memories to a level where they can mingle with other experiences
of “the way we build” in different places, eras, climates, whatever.
It’s kind of slightly gentrified, but still very patchy
and security conscious, edgy I suppose. Lots of corrugated iron roofs to
indicate a depth of history. I don’t remember the church but I kind of like it.
A certain clarity of form.
So that’s it. Let’s not get bogged down. Just a quick
exercise. Partly aimed at developing my sketching skills on the Microsoft
Surface by the way. You have to practice. No other way.
I really enjoyed being a mature
student at Wits and…