[Norlisk] A Gathering In Norilsk (2020)

Material: Colored Pencil, Graphite

Surface: Illustration Board

The third entry in the Norilsk study. Enamored by the interior of many of the areas of Norilsk. From the very old fashioned  slightly peeling wallpaper to the classic wooden furniture. It was instrumental  to get a gist of how the people here lived.

Andres Duany advocates  “a shared belief in a direct causal relationship between the character of the physical environment and the social health of families and the community at large.” How the environment shapes it’s residents was something I recently discovered when exploring urban planning and urban design. Duany was a person of interest during the creation of the series. Specifically, his thesis on urban sprawl and the negative consequences of poor urban planning. In this piece's case when looking at content related to Norlisk you get a pretty good idea of how the people lived, the same way when one sees a massive 5 lane boulevard. The viewer has an understand that this area is meant to facilitate vehicles, not people.

The goal with this series was to commit to a pseudo-worldbuilding process. To see an area, understand it’s history, the architecture and the landscape. To create a fiction on how these people might have lived, what they did on a daily basis and exposes the very captivating and interesting parts of those people by using the environment itself.

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