Brutal Venues

Screenprint, 29.7 x 42.0 cm

 

Homage to the Barbican Centre and the National theatre in London. The urban space as a wearable object; like a garment, a city becomes alive when it is inhabited by people. People, those tiny little dots you can't see from up high, are the main raison d'etre of every urban space. 

 

Brutal Venues

 

Photoshop Composition

Brutal Venues

Final Sketch 

3rd Sketch

Althaough I liked the composition of the illustration, I dropped the idea and started to work backwards: first by designing the building-made garment, and afterwards the model that wears it.

2nd Sketch

I developed a new idea which I wanted to base my illustration upon: The city as a lively and human-sized object, that comes to life only by the people that are in it. The city as a dress!

1st idea and sketch

A grown-up Little red riding hood walks in the city. I dropped the idea almost immediately!