Translations + Projections

“Imagination is not held within the mind, but it is potentially active in all the areas of transition from persons to objects or pictures. It operates, in other words, in the same zones as projection and its metaphors.”

-Robin Evans, The Projective Cast

Through drawings and models, Translations + Projections considers the different ways in which representational techniques common to the practice of architecture can be used as a tool to not only describe, but to reinterpret the spatial relationships of a single generic object. In the models, two-dimensional and three-dimensional modes of representation are superimposed, highlighting the similarities and discrepancies between the two dimensional and three dimensional artifacts. This meditation on the object is intended to shift the focus away from the object itself, and instead considers how conventional and non-conventional drawing projections radically change our perceptions, readings, and understandings of the object itself. Hybrid and invented drawing types further explore the discrepancies and distortions that occur in the translation from object to image.

Year: 2021

Program: Exhibition

Site: East Sibley Exhibition Hallway, Cornell University

Team: Cait McCarthy, Jordan Young

Special thanks to Cornell AAP.