The Salk Institute of Biological studies is an iconic building often shown in photographs as a dialogue between the building and nature. These depictions are often devoid of the human subject. This drawing imagines what the relationship between the building and the human might
be when pushed to the extreme. The courtyard space is so ruthlessly symmetrical that humans are forced to conform to the same logic. Mirroring the subjects, and not their shadows, suggests that the scale figures exist both in reality and in the imagination. This mirroring allows the scale figures to become a pattern-like
element that supports the conceptual argument of the drawing. Other devices, such as the crop that allows the pattern to run off of the page also help to support the drawing's argument.
In Collaboration with Jewel Pei, Ruchi Dattani
Instructors: Amina Blacksher, John Blood