Urban Journeys of the Rhizomatic Line

Using visual hierarchy, representational media often separate diverse urban experiences. Three categories of foreground, middle ground, and background are easily distinguished in photography and painting. Urban sketches buildings, figures, natural features. In architectural working drawing, “poché, entourage, mosaïque” forms a structural system for representing cut walls, environment, texture respectively[1]. Recently, photogrammetry or Lidar scanning claim to break these hierarchies by creating “a uniform unbiased document things space as they exist.”[2] However, these tools fail reveal the speculative imaginary experiences hidden behind surfaces.This series my drawings that I named “rhizomatic line”, is result non-hierarchical process inspired French philosophers Gilles Deleuze Felix Guattari's concept of rhizomes. Described an array attractions without beginning end, rhizome negotiates between things, “fosters connections fields, removal of blockages.”[3] Rather than producing fragmented abstract shapes, rhizomatic line moves objects intertwines them. Seemingly recording eye movement, rhizomatic, does not construct complete outlines, but through loosing their completion, it connects them. As explores city, differentiate humans, pedestrian lines, high-rise building edges, urban skylines, stairways, leaves small plant hiding window private room, entrances residential units atop towers, imaginative spaces.When looking at similar images, different people show movements.[4] A designer sees world construction, from multiple perspectives once. Architects use specific language draw lines. Axonometric projection takes advantage both aspect perspective photography, well mathematical precision orthographic computer cartesian systems. Although do lines true close vision, emphasize on " continuous which elements constant motion."[5] The dotted texture suggests one understanding scene's porosity, among many others. Through blurring boundaries poché, mosaïque, only portion image is displayed work under inviting viewer with imagination. In this sense, representation space. This single “active line” ending itself, exploratory journey fusing imaginations, speculations, desires, memories, dreams about city; walk walk's sake.”[6] [1] Michael Young, Reality Modeled After Images: Architecture Aesthetics Digital Image. (New York: Routledge, 2021), 10. [2] 53. [3] Guattari, Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism Schizophrenia. Translated Brian Massumi, (Minneapolis: University Minnesota, 1987), 12. [4] Alfred Yarbus. "Eye Movements During Perception Complex Objects." Eye Vision”, (Springer: Boston, MA, 1967) [5] Stan Allen. "Construction Lines: On Projection", Practice: Architecture, Technique+ Representation. 2009), 19. [6] Paul Klee. Pedagogical Sketchbook. Sybil Moholy-Nagy, Praeger Publisher,1953), 16.