Dos Figueroas
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An exploration of resilience between figural forms through diagrammatic projections.
This project is a relentless investigation of abstracted forms to stage “events” within an interdisciplinary
environment as figures reflect lifestyle and association to place. The events are illustrations of people,
places, and particular times throughout an undergraduate’s education; giving rise to figure formation by
diagrammatic projection.
Deconstructing the ideals of human movement in performing arts, primary nodes are extracted to be
rebuilt as objects with emphasis to a figure’s posture including: leaning, slouching, caressing, etc.
Designed to reimagine the concept of geometric movement in Luca Cambiaso’s “disegno”; a series of
dot to line diagrams are extracted and transformed into inflated geometric personifications. Through
expression of an architectural show, both tragedy and comedy act in collaboration either working as a
complete unit or parts to a whole.
To depict the figures as the symbol of their practice, line weight is embedded as the tattoo for a modern
representation of the architect and the architect’s craft--similar to Nicolas de Larmessin’s “Baroque
Costume Prints”. The skin serves to assist figure ground for the further illusion of distance by individually
articulating overlapping tattoos which stimulates a perception of depth. Once assembled, the
combination of form and line weight creates a chaotic, yet coherent design revealing its resilient
relationship in composition.
