After the WCC firing, I was driving back with a friend from Lillstreet and we were discussing how I’d been thinking of making really, really large body-forms. We were looking at the interior space in clover-leaves (the highway entrance, not the plant), the edges of woods, various buildings, building types. Some places the forms might work well, some places poorly. A couple of days after that discussion, on October 6, I did a few sketches.

Though at this point I’ve realized how this idea diverges from my initial intent, the sketches I  made are still pretty cool. I’ll take the idea someplace, eventually. The space is one I found and photographed – 1810 North… something… between Clark and Halsted… – and found them when considering spaces to play the forms against. Enjoy.

The structure is a bowtruss with skylight, bearing masonry walls, and tongue and groove roof deck.

The two farther ones have a nice bulging quality to them. Water balloons? The way I described the contours works pretty well.

These fell a little flat; the perspective feels like the viewer is at a distance.

Then I tried getting them to interact with each other more. The dynamic was visually exciting; I’ll make some pieces to explore the idea. As a drawing, I like this.

The sculpture at the far right one gives the best sense of perspective, but I don’t really like how it looks and the middle form is kind of blah.

My pen was misbehaving the whole time I was making these drawings, but in the end I got some valuable information from the process.