Landscapes: Small Works - The Street

" The Street" Small works

For this small works project I decided to switch my way of approaching the past works completely. I had an idea of what I might want to do prior the exploration of the street. I went to this street I used to pass by on my way home when I took the shortcut to avoid traffic, to realize the street wasn't what I thought so I just keep walking until I found something that call my attention. I finally found my street and start by sketching, the street had almost not movement appearing to be ghostly. My drawing was interrupted by unexpected movement from a car that stop on the middle of the road. In that moment  I stop drawing and start to write a description of the actions.  

First drawings on site

Drawing and writing on site

Writing continues

When I was walking back home I start to think on ideas of how to execute the street project. At the end I decided to make an abstract map of the main street surrounded and connected by the other streets I pass by. 

I start to think on a way to complete this task, so I decided to use 3 different triangles colors arrange to resemble the street signs. 

•  Yellow for buidings.
•  Greens for parks or grass.
•  Black for the sidewalk or asphalt.
•  The main street is highlighted with grey.
• The brown drawings represent sewers and leaves.
• The 4 dots on the grey street represent the only 4 cars I saw in the two hours of observation.

Last drawings and reflections

Drawing Continues

First arrangement of  the pieces

Filling up the street

Giving form to the street

Street almost done