I have heard that Gaudi's icon church Sagrada Familia is finished. I think one could only make such an assertion now that Gaudi has been dead for a hundred years. For, I believe, when he was alive he would never condone such a claim. Go ahead and google the structure - I cannot find an image I can "borrow" for you. But take a look. Does that look finished to you? Me either. Gaudi was a bit of a mad architect, ensnared by his love of patterns. Every "finished" piece would suggest another, a little higher, with a few more curves.
At least that is what I choose to believe because it serves as a plausible explanation of the drawing I have just completed which I choose to call "Patterns." Here is is:
Or at least most of it. A bit got trimmed off along the top but you wouldn't notice unless you were standing in front of the original which is about 24x20 inches. OK, it started out with a different name - "Loggias" - for the two wooden structures in the center. These, actually two versions of the same loggia::
And then I decided to add some lamp posts from a bridge in Budapest:
And as you can see, started to draw in a bit of the night sky and changed the name to "Lighting the Loggias." And that is when the patterns started to take over:
At that point I just admitted that I had lost control of the image, and let the patterns go wherever they wanted. And they did, until they handed the image off to the markers, who - as I watched my hands move across the paper - ended where we started:
Which brings me to an interesting conclusion. I think I have gone about as far as I want with this particular genre. My drawing table surrounds me with some earlier, very different images:
I'm not sure if I will m ove in the direction of any of those pix, but I will move somewhere 🙂
Watch this space!
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