Testing is a central principle in ’Pataphysics. The Autonomous series takes this as a starting point, examining how the frame shapes embodied perception and the act of drawing.

France and the Wall‍ ‍(2019) Graphite, Paper

Door Bar‍ ‍(2019) Graphite, Paper

Form Like Christ and His Disciples(2019) Graphite, Paper

Three Horizons‍ ‍(2019) Graphite, Paper

Square 3(2019) Graphite, Paper

Square 4(2019) Graphite, Paper

Fancy a Tab Triptych (Trip, Airport, Langhorn)‍ ‍(2019) Graphite, Paper

LOCUS‍ ‍(2019) Graphite, Paper

Square 2(2019) Graphite, Paper

Square 1 (2019) Graphite, Paper

THE AUTONOMOUS

A STUDY INTO HOW THE FRAME CAN CONTROL PERCEPTION AND SPATIAL POSSIBILITY

Testing is a central principle in ’Pataphysics. The Autonomous series takes this as a starting point, examining how the frame shapes embodied perception and the act of drawing.

France and the Wall‍ ‍(2019) Graphite, Paper

Door Bar‍ ‍(2019) Graphite, Paper

Form Like Christ and His Disciples(2019) Graphite, Paper

Three Horizons‍ ‍(2019) Graphite, Paper

Square 3(2019) Graphite, Paper

Square 4(2019) Graphite, Paper

Fancy a Tab Triptych (Trip, Airport, Langhorn)‍ ‍(2019) Graphite, Paper

LOCUS‍ ‍(2019) Graphite, Paper

Square 2(2019) Graphite, Paper

Square 1 (2019) Graphite, Paper

A SEARCH FOR TECTONICS

DRAWINGS THAT CONSTRUCT SPACE BEYOND THE LIMITS OF THE FRAME

If The Autonomous series explores projection under constraint, the A Search for Tectonics series begins pushing beyond it, allowing the drawings to construct their own spatial logic.

Chimney(2020) Ink, Graphite, Paper

Facade‍ ‍. (2020) Ink, Graphite, Paper

Two Horizons(2020) Ink, Graphite, Paper

Italy (2020) Ink, Graphite, Paper

Projection(2020) Ink, Graphite, Paper

Circulation Strategy (2020) Ink, Graphite, Paper

THE DIALECTICAL COMPUTER

A COLLABORATIVE SYSTEM WHERE AUTONOMY AND EXTERNAL INFLUENCE COLLIDE

The Dialectical Computer series is a collaboration with Dr Alex Blanchard, where two distinct practices are brought into deliberate friction. This encounter introduces a productive instability, allowing a shared visual language to emerge through tension rather than resolution. All works presented here are by David Boyd.

Maria ‍ ‍(2021) Ink, Paper

8 Squares (2021) Ink, Paper

Sorry Christos (2021) Ink, Paper

Survey‍ ‍(2021) Ink, Paper

BAR SEQUENCE

PARALLEL PROJECTION COMPRESSED BEYOND PRECISION INTO INSTABILITY

Axonometry and isometry are widely used as technical tools, often reducing projection to a language of precision and control. The Bar Sequence series works against this tendency, reconfiguring parallel projection through an iterative process of visual compression that rejects accuracy in favour of possibility.

8 Bar(2026) Ink, Paper

HOME

RECONSTRUCT THE INSTABILITY OF MEMORY

The Home series draws from existing places, not as surveys, but as spaces reimagined through the instability of memory. These drawings emerge through acts of misremembering, where fragments of the past are translated into uncertain, shifting conditions.

JSNE‍ ‍(2025) Ink, Paper

Tyneside Flat No.1 (2022) Ink, Graphite, Paper

Tyneside Flat: Speculation (2025) Ink, Paper

Tyneside Flat No. 2 (2026) Ink, Paper

MORPHOLOGIES

FRAGMENTS THAT THAT ARE SUSPENDED BETWEEN CONTROL AND INCOMPLETION

The Morphologies series responds to geometric restriction and compositional control. Each drawing exists as a fragment of something larger and ultimately unresolvable. Lines resist gravity and detach from any stable ground, suspending the work in a state of compositional stasis.

Pink Lane‍ ‍ (2025) Ink, Paper

Hustlers (2026) Ink, Paper

QUIRINAL PALACE

INTERROGATE DRAWING TO INFILTRATE AND RECONFIGURE HIERARCHICAL SPACE

The Quirinal Palace in Rome presents a spatial order shaped by hierarchy and separation. Its architecture constructs and reinforces divisions between social classes, operating as a diagram of imbalance. Within this condition, the resistant gesture is to rupture—not as an act of sensitivity, but as a means of confronting and reconfiguring the structures it sustains.

Plan‍ ‍ (2022) Ink, Paper

Section (2022) Ink, Paper

Failed Projection‍ ‍ (2022) Ink, Paper

Axonometric (2022) Ink, Paper

Re-alignment(2022) Ink, Paper

BROWN

REPETITION AS A TOOL FOR MISTRANSLATION AND INVENTION

The Brown series examines repetition and the increasing geometric complexity it can produce. Each drawing returns to the same starting point, yet with every translation, elements are both lost and reconfigured.

Brown 3 (2023) Ink, Parcel Paper

Brown 4 (2023) Ink, Paper

Brown 2 (2023) Ink, Parcel Paper

Brown(2023) Ink, Baking Paper

FRAGMENTS

EXPERIMENTS OF UNCERTAINTY

Fragments is not a defined series, but a collection of loosely connected thoughts and projections. Some works function as process tests, others as tectonic studies or compositional investigations.

The Jinsihiou Sequence‍ ‍(2023) Ink, Paper

Infill ‍ ‍ (2024) Ink, Paper

APL (2021) Ink, Graphite, Paper

Bb‍ ‍(2021) Ink, Graphite, Paper

RGB ‍ ‍ (2022) Ink, Graphite, Paper

Untitled‍ ‍ (2021) Ink, Paper

Tools(2020) Ink, Graphite, Paper