Balancing both historical precedent and theory with modern tools the concept of perspective can be pushed to new boundaries. The infamous ceiling of Sant'Ignazio’s in Rome led to a unique approach to creating a difference in real vs imagined space. However, when one walks through the church the mesmerizing illusion above you quickly becomes distorted and broken. Its instance of perfection can only be observed from a singular point on the floor which is marked for your convenience. This “one-off” moment led the architectural firm of Freeland-Buck to develop what they coined as “one-liners”. Using a static image and the tricks of perspective they distorting it into a 3D model whose folds and tessellations crafted a new world from the one we knew and understood in that one off moment.

Under the guide of Brennan Buck we were challenged to take a found image and create our own one-liner. Using a still image of the staircase inside MVRDV’s Salt office building in Amsterdam a new world was explored. Through various apertures the interiority of the space would change as you rotated around it. The stairs were loaded on a singular surface, which in their one-off moment would create the illusion of an infinitely long staircase. To further the illusion of the physical object the image was printed on veneer giving it a contrasting grain with the wood present in the photograph.

Spring 2019

Critic: Brennan Buck