upon the advice of a friend i looked into the photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto. i had seen his photographs in japan at the Chi Chu Museum and heard about his making of a photographic house, but not able to find much information on it. there is something that he wrote that i have felt since coming from a background based in photography and installation from that..."photography is a means of substituting a two-dimensional space for a three-dimensional space. it is similar in that respect to the relationship of perspective drawings to architecture."
after the initial diagrams and drawings of both houses, i took the plan of the Mateus house and started to draw perspectives from certain points. in hoping to achieve the perspectives that the book photographs showed, i was dismayed that i had not drawn these but had a distortion in the view. then, after looking back i remembered that there is one true height and the rest fall back or forward and are distorted. this is the way of the perspective. [depending on the angle] there is some error on my part i am sure, but my reaction to this was what would happen next if i drew the plan from the perspective. will i get a new plan?
this is the idea that i have had with the drawings of the camera obscura. in the drawing of one perspective and then looking back and drawing that, the overlap of the in-between [my station point] could show a new space, another wall perhaps, a thickening of one wall, or maybe the overlap, in its thickness, is the opening unseen. this would be a new plan to draw from the perspective.
and then to do a progression of theses. sections through the perspective to the plan...but what if i am always in the middle? what does that mean.
these drawings will post tomorrow.