Flatland Urbanism is a representational exploration in translating three dimensional objects to two dimensions, and two dimensional images to three dimensions. As part of a study of the internet design aesthetic (and how to spatialize it), these drawings have a specific interest in both maintaining latent qualities of the original work while simultaneously defamiliarizing it and creating something new. Both architectural icons and contemporary digital works are manipulated with a series of techniques as a means of translating the projects between two and three dimensions. Flat works are layered and warped, their content extruded and manipulated to give the appearance of occupiable space within the image; spatial projects are reduced and compressed, drawn in a manner intended to eliminate familiarity, with color and texture applied to further flatten the image. These Flatland Urbanism studies are part of a larger work further exploring these dimensional translations and proposing a new dimensional world existing somewhere between flat and spatial.
