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Continuous Cities - Frontispiece

Date : 1995
Materials : Pen, Ink, on Fabriano Paper
Dimensions : 9.625" in. x 13.00" in (244m x 330mm)

Continuous Cities - Frontispiece


*…Kublai asked Marco: "You, who go about exploring and who see signs, can tell me toward which of these futures the favoring winds are driving us."

"For these ports I could not draw a route on the map or set a date for the landing At times all I need is a brief glimpse, an opening in the midst of an incongruous landscape, a glint of lights in the fog, the dialogue of two pas- sers by meeting in the crowd, and I think that, setting out from there, I will put together, piece by piece, the perfect city, made of fragments mixed with the rest, of instants separated by intervals, of signals one sends out, not knowing who receives them.

If I tell you that the city toward which my journey tends is discontinuous in space and time, now scattered, now more condensed, you...

Paul Haigh, is an English born architect, designer and artist. Following graduation from Leeds Polytechnic and the Royal College of Art he immigrated to the United States. The FineArtAmerica collections are selections of sketch book drawings, watercolors, collages and professional drawings. These works, on paper, are a record of moments, places and experiences. Inclusion was based on a commonality of inherent spatial concepts and drawing technique. Watercolor, acrylic and crayon are the primary media, the additive and reductive techniques they embody, enable works that are multi-layered, translucent and transparent in visual depth. Architectural notions of placement, juxtaposition, figure/ground relationships and implied form...