SHORT RE-INTERVIEW with Val Peter of "ARTIST UNKNOWN"
This interview happened accidentally over Facebook as a
result of last week's posting. However, Val and Xyle did a long interview
with me for the online documentary channel Artist Unknown back on May 8, 2015
Q & A
with Val Peter, re: ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT
(Facebook,
Nov.20/15)
Val Peter So what do
these drawings have to do with Architecture? I'm missing something or I didn't
catch something from way back...I figured architecture would be like buildings!
Matthew
Brown Yes,
indeed! a) The graphic novel explores the creation of worlds, which include the
architectural and urban design scales, b) the process of considering the
graphics and the discipline of creating them comprises discipline ingrained
from the world of architecture, c) the story is about a young man in an
alternate world who pines to go to architecture school although he's from the
remote provinces, finally gets his wish, and several days later the world ends.
He is preserved from the destruction of the world in the mystical city of
Varanasi / Benares which is suspended above the universal cycles of cosmic
destruction and creation on Shiva's trident, and commissioned to design a new
world! smile emoticon
Val Peter Wowza!! So
your new graphic novel is called Architecture Department?
Matthew
Brown Val
Peter Yup! It's
called "Architecture Department," and I had it planned in sketches and
notes before I even had the idea of returning to complete my Arch. degree!
Val Peter So the
architecture degree is helping you with the whole grasp of perspective in your
drawings? Is that
the sole incentive or is it moreso for the completion of your degree?
Matthew
Brown These are
good questions, Val! The interview continues wink
emoticon
Val Peter You beat
me to the punch!
Val Peter I was
going to say interview completed after you answered the last Q....lol
Matthew
Brown a)
Architectural representation has a set of expected drawing conventions, such as
the elevation, perspective, section, plan and axonometric/isometric drawings. It also
presumes orthogonal (90 degree angles) or something deliberately opposed to it,
and includes attempts to portray the experienced quality of a space or
succession of spaces. Finally, the drawings are expected to convey a richness
of conceptual information... all of these have made their mark! (Pun intended.)
b) My
incentives were plural... I wanted to complete what I had begun, follow up my
love of comics and investment in doing them, and I wanted to integrate my love
of architecture and urban design into my exploration of the human subconscious
and its divine/mundane expressions in the graphic novel form.
(Phew!)
And earn
the #$%&@*!! degree.
Val Peter (No
question.) So I'm looking forward to seeing some archetypal wonders in your next
book!!
Matthew
Brown Yes my
friend, I PROMISE TO DO MY BEST!!!!!
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