A year flashing past. My youngest son has turned 33. In a couple of years he will be half my age. My last-post-but-one reflected on work I did a couple of years before he was born. Let’s Build Zimbabwe, Module B. Since then I have re-assembled that booklet, remaining close to the original. I re-typed all the text, & cleaned up the drawings one-by-one.
That was a tedious process in some ways, but spending the time examining them closely was a positive experience. I’m probably not the only person reflecting on my past life during these strange lock down times, but for me it is turning into a remarkably positive exercise.
I have been motivated to create new drawings of this type: drawing on my ipad, using long lost sketches as an underlay and emulating the crisp Rotring technique that I developed all those years ago. The aim was to capture the activity of building, the processes, sequences of events in time. You can do this with video clips now, and I think this is…