Ernest Burden III architectural art

As-Built: Architectural Portraits

Linear perspective is a tool I employ to provide a familiar framework, creating the perception of space, allowing shapes to carry form and creating room for the viewer to enter. I explore those passages, capturing some of what it is like to be there actively, not just seen from afar. Architecture is place. Drawings of architecture give viewers a place to be in their imagination, gives them a structure for belonging. I invite the viewer to linger, and offer reinforcement of the feeling of being alive, and aware, and present.

I create architectural portraits, drawings that allow the subject to project its best self, echoing original intent in harmony with contemporary use. My work brings forth the life and personality of the structures. As in my own life, I am examining what exists as a blend of original purpose and ongoing reality, the early promise in its later state.

Frank Lloyd Wright