There is something about the immediacy of drawing at a large size, standing in front of a drawing board that brings the quality and urgency of instant involvement with a subject in view.
Drawing at a size in relation to your body allows for the drawing not to become object, treasured in hand, at arm’s length. Rather, the direct relationship with a subject extrapolated through drawing processes and techniques brings this subject closer; it makes it somehow tangible, capable of being experienced and touched.
I use drawing to observe situations and generate an understanding through drawing.
I draw on a situation – tracing off film footage and photography, then using this to extract spatial/architectonic content – until there is an understanding of the the formal content at hand. This process of drawing on the subject and tracing aspects of it, is done by drawing iterative points of view of the subject and iterative points of view of the subsequent drawings. Every reiterated drawing is a refinement and unraveling of the compressed spatiality present in the subject. I trace and draw in modes of observation and speculation until I reach a turning point – a poiesis – where the drawing leaves its status as one thing (its representational role) to become something else. At that particular moment in the process, I can draw through the situation I am looking at. What is to be seen in the drawing is no longer visually representational of its source material, but is a mediation of inherent and observed architectonic intent.
holds a post-doctoral research position at the faculty of architecture of KU Leuven (Belgium). As a researcher she exhibits, publishes and writes about her drawings from within the discipline of architecture. She is a guest speaker and teacher at a number of international universities and conferences where she talks on her research in relation to the practice. Her drawings have been exhibited internationally including at the Venice Biennale (IT), La Gallerie d’Architecture in Paris (FR), Tchoban Foundation, Museum of architectural drawing Berlin, Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin (G), and Art Omi : Architecture, Ghent, New York (USA).
In 2014, she concluded a PhD titled ‘Process Drawing’ under Dr. Martyn Hook within the invitational Practice based Research program at RMIT University (Melbourne), led by Leon van Schaik.
There is something about the immediacy of drawing at a large size, standing in front of a drawing board that brings the quality and urgency of instant involvement with a subject in view.
Drawing at a size in relation to your body allows for the drawing not to become object, treasured in hand, at arm’s length. Rather, the direct relationship with a subject extrapolated through drawing processes and techniques brings this subject closer; it makes it somehow tangible, capable of being experienced and touched.
I use drawing to observe situations and generate an understanding through drawing.
I draw on a situation – tracing off film footage and photography, then using this to extract spatial/architectonic content – until there is an understanding of the the formal content at hand. This process of drawing on the subject and tracing aspects of it, is done by drawing iterative points of view of the subject and iterative points of view of the subsequent drawings. Every reiterated drawing is a refinement and unraveling of the compressed spatiality present in the subject. I trace and draw in modes of observation and speculation until I reach a turning point – a poiesis – where the drawing leaves its status as one thing (its representational role) to become something else. At that particular moment in the process, I can draw through the situation I am looking at. What is to be seen in the drawing is no longer visually representational of its source material, but is a mediation of inherent and observed architectonic intent.
-Riet Eekhout
RIET EECKHOUT (M.Arch, MA, PhD)
holds a post-doctoral research position at the faculty of architecture of KU Leuven (Belgium). As a researcher she exhibits, publishes and writes about her drawings from within the discipline of architecture. She is a guest speaker and teacher at a number of international universities and conferences where she talks on her research in relation to the practice. Her drawings have been exhibited internationally including at the Venice Biennale (IT), La Gallerie d’Architecture in Paris (FR), Tchoban Foundation, Museum of architectural drawing Berlin, Architekturmuseum der TU Berlin (G), and Art Omi : Architecture, Ghent, New York (USA).
In 2014, she concluded a PhD titled ‘Process Drawing’ under Dr. Martyn Hook within the invitational Practice based Research program at RMIT University (Melbourne), led by Leon van Schaik.
Website: https://www.rieteeckhout.com/
Instagram: @riet_eeckhout
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