While studying at Columbia University, NY, we had one of our studio trips to Varanasi, India and being there was eye opening to my architectural senses. The experience of narrow streets, majestic ghats and sacred yet communal kunds was impossible to draw in mere plan, section, or elevation. And I wanted to figure out the best medium to portray what I saw. So for a city stretch we were working in, I took inspiration from the historical religious paintings of India which were drawn as an overlap of various viewpoints like the people in elevation with the walls in plans. I started by drawing the intricate city moments I noticed like a 5ft market street leading to a temple next to a masjid, how temporary furnitures helped in drastically changing the ghat usage, etc.These small moments turned into this 2ft abstract drawing that I love and keep going back to!
