Ephraim Joris :

In line with what `Henri Lefebvre describes as fields of mental and physical space this drawing wants to perform simultaneously as spatial representation and a moment of spatial practice. As spatial representation the drawing acts as a plan and invests in the measuring, categorizing and systemizing of ideas. Through this way of looking, the drawing is used to describe conceived space (physical space); one of the three fields in Henri Lefebvre’s conceptual triad. In Orthographic set I this measurement takes place on the level of organizing relations between spaces in the design of a family house. This drawing is the start of negotiating relational parameters in the design of a domestic space away from a normative vocabulary yet in search of incorporating a historical/hysterical spatial awareness. With Orthographic set I this is attempted by using ‘slow’ drawing exploring collisions and erosions of spatial program to design new amalgamations of programmatic clusters towards the de-figuration of a house. Orthographic set I was first designed as a physical model, then photographed, printed on large paper, drawn over (erasing and adding lines and texture) and digitized again.
As a moment of spatial practice the drawing is used as an instrument of performance; engaging in the drawing away of a pre-set narrative exploring the experience of meandering paper-space – a process of abstraction – an erosion of figurative space… (More drawings are needed to explain this but they still need to be drawn)

Orthographic set I