interpretations: constant’s new babylon

SKILLS : charcoal, drawing, ink, SI, situationist

6 ft x 8 ft: Utopia has always been an especially intriguing subject for artists to explore because there is no concrete basis for its existence except in the imagination. I was inspired to explore my own idea of utopia from Constant Nieuwenhuis drawings of New Babylon, an architectural proposal for a future world in which the need to work is replaced with a nomadic life of creative play. My own drawings juxtaposed structural spaces with more abstract landscapes in order to consider the similarities and contradictions that existed and reciprocally enhanced each other.