Savile Row Illustrations

A series of mixed-media drawing 'experiments' of various aspects of Savile Row upon first visit. The motivation was to implicate the drawing as a 'surface' in itself, intimating a materiality- so the drawing, potentially, begins to resonate on levels beyond representation. The 'grungy' (for want of a better word) patina is at odds with the perceived sartorial elegance of the row.

A contrast of the visceral and the sartorial.

Contextually, the drawings deal with spaces below street level- the workshop spaces, whose sewing-bench aesthetic contrasts with the opulence of the Savile Row showroom.

The drawings initiate a number of techniques, whose potential I seek to explore in further iterations and develope a unique representational tactic.

No.13 Savile Row, Pencil, Acrylic Transfer, Acetate

initiating context

The Site_ Savile Row, London


map_01 initial aerial map showing immediate context and extents of the street

http://www.savilerowbespoke.com/History/History_of_Savile_Row/

Bespoke_A garment cut by an individual, for an individual, by an individual is one definition of the word that is synonymous with Savile Row. A bespoke suit is cut from a pattern made specifically for a particular client (i.e the material is spoke for), whereas a made-to-measure suit is cuit from a standard pattern and amended to suit the contours of the individual.

Visceral Vicissitudes III _ 'a tailor's anatomy'

'a fold, a crypt, a wrinkle of insideness in the fabric of nature's externality' (Robert Pogue Harrison)

Visceral Vicissitudes II

Drawing experiment. Pencil, ink, trace, tissue & PVA

Visceral Vicissitudes

Thoughts and Words- what? how? why?................mk II

What?
My architecture seeks to synthesise a milieu of ideas concerning the body- its tectonic surfaces, mechanics of motion and relations to space, and the performative roles of the anatomy within a larger techno-ecological framework. This coupled with a preoccupation in futurist notions of representing (or indeed the misrepresenting in the traditional sense) the anatomy/anatomical surface in ‘movement space’, delineates my current architectural agenda.
The title is a reference to the ‘tropes’ of cyber-theory. Which as a discourse on the reflexive relationship of corporeality and technology, propagate a hyperbolised, neo-cartesian idea of metaphysics that connotes the separation of body and mind - in which the body exists as a lesser mechanism (‘the meat’) distinguished from an ontologically superior mind, and experience of the world is mediated via ‘consensual hallucinations’.1

Visceral Surfaces III