SPACE is a 10-week drawing course focused on the lived, imagined, and constructed dimensions of space. Through hands-on experiments students explore how spatial sensations can be visually articulated and how drawing can become a tool for thinking, feeling, and spatial inquiry.
Using charcoal, ink and collage, students will investigate interior spaces, the intervals between objects, air and atmosphere, bodily volume, and imagined environments. Techniques such as blind contour, line-free tonal studies, erasure, and “sculpting with shadows” expand habits of looking and mark-making. Emphasis is placed on process, risk-taking, and working with an open-mind—both materially and conceptually. Students will be asked to produce their own still lifes before drawing them, work from memory, and from photographs, leading to world-building and singularity.
Projects move fluidly between observation and invention, personal memory and research, intimacy and social commentary. Optional readings in fiction and philosophy provide context for thinking about perception, memory, and spatial experience.