EXPERIMENTAL HAND DRAWINGS

All drawings shown are made using traditional hand drawing draughting techniques. The work explores and challenges the limited and inherently uncreative ways that axonometric and isometric drawings are predominantly utilised.

In current creative cultures axonometry and isometry is predominantly used to hold and show scientific measurements and information clearly and accurately. Consequently, it is widely used in computer-aided design practices, including architecture, industrial design, and even flat-pack furniture instructions. In these contexts however, is are is used in a strictly technical manner, leaving little room for creativity or artistic exploration.

In response to this, the work takes inspiration from early surrealist philosophies such as ’Pataphysics and Dadaism. It explores the contrast between the precise, scientific nature of axonometric drawing and the physical, embodied actions of art practice. By doing this, the drawings reveal the creative possibilities that can emerge when structured systems are used in unintentional, absurd, and irrational ways.