22.6.09

The reflection:Drawings

“In architecture projection space is nothing other than pictures of light”. (Panofsky, E.,1968 cited in Evans, R., 1995, p.108).


As a whole, forms of life and the environment depend on sunlight to create and maintain ecosystems. Light is not only closely intertwined with our bodily and perceptual sensations and situations in daily life, but also a fundamental substance that makes a diverse range of objects visible, things and situations. For human beings, light is not only a matter of existence and survival, but also a spiritual and mental guide, assigned religious, scientific and philosophical significance of them. For artists, light path implies the line of drawing; it also reveals things in order for drawing about them to be produced.


Light is the ultimate geometric instrument; this fact has been proven by contemporary laser surveys. In Euclid’s ‘Elements’, the straight line is defined as what can only be interpreted as a line that looks like a point when seen from end on, in other words a line that is identical to a light path (Sir Thomas L. Heath, 1968 cited in Evans, R., 1995).


During the journey, the reflection of light reveals the environment’s image. The drawings present the physical architecture where the observer has visited. The drawings are constructed by experience of journey which is “touching” the environment. In addition, the perspectives are drawn from the position we occupy as we observe the space. The camera angles are also taken from the perspective of the observer experiencing the environment. Here are the drawings that describe third part of the journey.