Abstract
Can visual inquiries into the space of Poetry find its parallels into teaching making of drawings and architecture. It’s difficult to imagine architecture without representational sketches and drawings that lead to its completion during the construction of buildings. These drawings are multi-faceted in their origins. They are means of communicating ideas regarding a constructional detail of artifacts within the horizontal or vertical landscape, but also they can be works of art in itself and means of representing thought and imaginary reality as has been demonstrated throughout history of art and architecture by people like Piranesi. One can dwell in Giovani Battista Piranesi’s (1720-78) imaginary drawings as one equally can find refuge and sustenance in interiority and depth of Rumi’s Poetry. The drawings presented here based on Rumi’s poems, are an attempt to reveal the concentrated vision of Rumi’s meditative spaces in his mystical odes (ghazals) and quattrains (rubai) by exploring the single motif of Sufi landscape where the subjects evoke an atmosphere of solitude and aloneness. Empty foregrounds in these illustrations allow viewer to enter the drawing while shadows help breakdown the sense of scale and perspective creating an intensely meditative space to dwell.
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