Not Simply Every Sunset Over Eden

Not Simply Every Sunset Over EdenNot Simply Every Sunset Over Eden suggests that imagination can be a terrible thing. Cataloged are 31 complex watercolor illustrations; and 17 Dinner Sketches finger painted in ink, wine and coffee. The designs are small exigent pages made by the hands while under the influence of a poetic will. The images are proposed of an architects imagination and interrogated by close inspection. There is poetic intent: that each illustration carry a 3 way burden

Not Simply Every Sunset Over Eden suggests that imagination can be a terrible thing. Cataloged are 31 complex watercolor illustrations; and 17 Dinner Sketches finger painted in ink, wine and coffee. The designs are small exigent pages made by the hands while under the influence of a poetic will. The images are proposed of an architectÕs imagination and interrogated by close inspection. There is poetic intent: that each illustration carry a 3-way burden of face, place, and horizon. A face is what it seems, a mask looking back at you from the page. The invitation of human scale into the scene is making place. A collection which tenders a glimpse into an imagination revealed as illustrated daydreams of poetic caption.

Bob Condia is a Professor of Architecture and an Architect with Condia + Ornelas Architects. He believes that analog illustrations represent the hand-eye collaboration of thinking. Not Simply Every Sunset Over Eden is introduced by Brian Dougan with a ÒPrefaceÓ by Henri deHahn.