The Lost Designs of a Paper Architect, by Rick Wright
Rick Wright will be lecturing on his current series of work. Included in the discussion will
be notes on his process, work-in-progress images, and recent gallery successes with
the project.
He writes in his statement, “I grabbed a puzzle cube one day and started recreating
famous buildings from memory. The 3x3x3 SOMA cube is comprised of 7 unique 3-D
pieces. I use both a plastic set and a wood set to craft the "architecture.” I’m playing the
role of an imaginary paper architect (one who never built a single building). The
structures, once finalized, are lit with strobe and photographed with a 4x5 view camera.
The prints are made with damaged/out-of-date Kodak paper, developed in 105-degree
Arista Lith chemistry. That paper-dev combo produces something very akin to a
decayed, browned, faded charcoal drawing—landing the prints squarely in the handdrawn
sketch category. All the while utilizing pure camerawork. Happily