EXPLORING WRONG PERSPECTIVES: FUSING GEOMETRY AND EXPERIENCE

Our proposal should be considered as a reflective conversation between three different parties: an artist, a mathematician, and an architect – the first person storyteller. All three of us are involved in teaching (aspects of) drawing/ visualisation for architecture students and share a mutual interest in exploring the boundaries and extensions of perspective drawing. I fondly remember Dirk’s mischievous smile when he stated that he “had found a geometrically sound method to construct ‘wrong’ perspectives and by doing so he added, he could prove ‘wrong’ perspectives are also ‘scientifically right”. Hélène - our fellow drawing instructor - immediately objected that “geometrical constructions of wrong perspectives risk ‘providing a methodology’ for ‘wrongness’, shortcutting intuition and straightforward discovery of ‘finding’ an intuitive value of a ‘wrong’ perspectives”. Doing so, she argued, runs the risk of turning the whole idea of inventing ‘wrong’ perspectives into a rigid system once again. I begged to differ with Hélène - especially when conceiving forms and spaces. For me, Dirk’s methodology appeared to open up a way to understand, construct and perhaps more importantly, compare different kinds of perspectives beyond convention. To fuel our conversation we started exchanging drawings. Dirk’s series of explorations to geometrically construct ‘wrong’ perspectives sparked Hélène to provide a visual critique upon a historical drawing to which I contributed a set of design-based drawings which attempt to visualise more than one can perceive.status: Published onlin