"The pencil has been called the most potent instrument in the world, for it gives most of man's thoughts and aspirations their first visible form.
Drawings are like windows through which we see things. The draughtsman, who is a maker of these windows, appreciates the effort put into them much more so than others, who only see through drawings,as it were, to the things themselves depicted and so take drawing for granted. Drawing is of this nature, and man who can draw can think of, and deal with, many things and problems which another man cannot."(Peter Jeffrey, B. 1979)
Preface
“It is important to remember that in the classical tradition, drawing began when a Corintian maiden outlined the shadow (a profile) of her departing lover on a wall.” (P’erez-G’omez, A. & Pelletier, L. 1997)
Construction and Reconstruction
Sites Journey :Lines of the Ancient Astronomers Stone Circle-Ley consciousness-Churches
Leys (or alignments) are straight lines running between landmarks such as standing stones and other megaliths, earthworks, tumuli, ponds, churches (which were often built on pagan sites) and natural features. They can stretch for just a few miles, or for many hundreds.
Leys, two of them running parallel, on the Bedfordshire-Hertfordshire border, formed by alignments of churchs on ancient sites, earthworks and stretches of tracks which often lead up to churches.
A line of four standing stones, one of them in the sone circle at Castle Fraser, Aberdeenshire. This pattern of megalithic alignments from stone circles is repeated throughout the country and provides the primary evidence of the ley system.
From the antiquity, the relationship between astronomy and shadow tracers (sundial) had been firmly developed in the Western architectural tradition. The geometric and mathematical arrangement of this sophisticated system has ties back to ancient civilizations, enabling these people to navigate their spatial position on the earth, with an understanding of time and duration. To investigate the simultaneity of light and shadow, the ancients used the structure of the Stone Circle ,one of sites is the rollright stones where is located in Oxfordshire.
It precisely transforms the light from the sun, the moon and the stars to shadows. From Ptolemy’s works, Analemma and Planispherium, were seeking to represent the heavenly sphere by projecting the shadow to a plane. In De architectura, Vitruvius emphasized the importance of both astronomy and optics for architects. Optics was necessary for formal adjustments and proportional corrections; astronomy, on the other hand, allowed the architect to “find the east, west, south, and north, as well s the theory of the heavens, the equinox, solstices, and courses of the stars.
Existence and Destruction:
From fragment to chaos - Performers show on the stage
By definition, the ruin is a fragment. The stones of the Forum, temple columns,cathedral towers-are all vestiges of a now vanished monument,of a history which exists no more.The ruin conjures up absence. And yet in the same breath one might say that the presence of a ruin creates a world with colours,atmosphere, and ghosts of its own, tearing itself off the past like a page ripped from a calendar.Hence the ruin is more than a fragment.
Initially seemingly chaotic, the fields littered with ruins that Poliphhilo walks through appear, as he advances, increasingly invested with meaning, so that eventually his archeological and epigraphic curiosity is awakened:" Admiring these beautiful fragments with much delight and pleasure I was still avid to search out new finds. I roamed like some animal always seeking better pasture over the heap of ruins and the huge columns, some in pieces,others whole"
