/ the other shapes

I first read Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges at the beginning of my architecture studies.
I read it again much later, shortly after completing this series of drawings.
While reading, I realized that what I had drawn was an unconscious homage to Borges’s poetics, or perhaps I understood that Borges played an essential role in the way I construct a drawing, or an imaginary place.
I began this series by imagining an ancient (or timeless) palace, a labyrinth-building, always the same yet always different from itself.
The rooms unfold through passages, staircases, mirrors, doors, and windows opening onto a night sky.
Each room is filled with geometric forms, volumes, useless or unusable objects.
What I imagined was a palace containing all possible geometric shapes, their combinations, their volumes.
I was drawn to the strange idea of imagining an architecture that is necessarily physical (and therefore made of finite things) yet infinite at the same time.

A4
Color pencils, markers
2019