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A / 31 / Architecture, illustration, design. This blog contains my own work.

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Succulent Queen

Black ink, copic markers and digital techniques.

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Reina de las suculentas

Tinta negra, rotuladores Copic y técnicas digitales.

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Land Art through Land types

Conceptual diagram I did for my research proyect based on the study of Land Art and it’s relation with architecture.

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Land Art y los distintos tipos de suelo

Diagrama conceptual que realicé para mi trabajo de investigación sobre Land Art y su relación con la arquitectura.

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Grief

Black ink, copic markers and digital techniques.

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Aflicción

Tinta negra, rotuladores Copic y técnicas digitales..

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Trembling Hands #01

Black ink and Copic markers on paper.

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Manos temblorosas #01

Tinta negra y rotuladores Copic sobre papel.

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The encounter

Black ink on paper.

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El encuentro

Tinta negra sobre papel.

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Bloodflowers

Black Ink and digital techniques.

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Fragmented gaze

Black Ink, watercolour and collage.

Landscape analysis of El Prado de San Sebastián, Sevilla.

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Miradas fragmentadas

Tinta negra, acuarelas y collage.

Estudio del paisaje en El Prado de San Sebastián, Sevilla.

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Dissolving Brodsky (II): The anxious journey.

Ink, collage and digital techniques.

Combination of three of my illustrations about J. Brodsky’s ‘’Watermark‘’.

Drapery, mirrors and dust / Cartography of Venice’s flood zone frequency / Lost in Rossi’s floating geometry

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Combinación de tres de las ilustraciones que realicé basadas en el libro ‘’Marca de agua’‘ de J. Brodsky.

Cortinas, espejos y polvo / Cartografía de la frecuencia de inundación de la ciudad de Venecia / Perdido en la geometría flotante de Rossi.

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Dissolving Brodsky: Drapery, mirrors and dust.

Ink, pastel pencil and collage.

In this artwork I was trying to capture the dusty atmosphere that Joseph Brodsky creates when he is walking through a gallery at a Venetian palace.

‘‘Then there were those mirrors, two or three in each room, of various sizes, but mostly rectangular. They all had delicate golden frames, with well-wrought floral garlands or idyllic scenes which called more attention to themselves than to their surface, since the amalgam was invariably in poor shape. In a sense, the frames were more coherent than their contents, straining, as it were, to keep them from spreading over the wall. Having grown unaccustomed over the centuries to reflecting anything but the wall opposite, the mirrors were quite reluctant to return one's visage, out of either greed or impotence, and when they tried, one's features would come back incomplete. I thought, I begin to understand Régnier. From room to room, as we proceeded through the enfilade, I saw myself in those frames less and less, getting back more and more darkness. Gradual subtraction, I thought to myself; how is this going to end? And it ended in the tenth or eleventh room. I stood by the door leading into the next chamber, staring at a largish, three-by-four-foot gilded rectangle, and instead of myself I saw pitch-black nothing. Deep and inviting, it seemed to contain a perspective of its own---perhaps another enfilade. For a moment I felt dizzy; but as I was no novelist, I skipped the option and took a doorway.‘‘ _Watermark by J. Brodsky

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Tinta, pastel y collage.

Esta composición trata de capturar esa polvorienta y gris atmósfera recogida por Joseph Brodsky cuando caminaba por el pasillo de un antiguo palacio veneciano.

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Seville 2115: City of the Future

This illustration is part of a comic-like illustrated series called: ‘‘Seville 2115: designing a futuristic scene that takes part a hundred years from now.’‘ In this composition I wanted to express the situation of the city in 2115. I created a few characters that experienced life through different years. I also included a floor perspective view, a section and a few plans of the city ending with a view of the Earth. In each image I try to explain this utopia I’ve designed based on Pascal Häusermann experimental architecture.

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Esta ilustración forma parte de una serie de comics llamada: ‘‘Sevilla 2115: diseñando un escenario futuro a cien años vista’‘. En esta composición quería expresar la situación de la ciudad en el año 2115. Creé algunos personajes que habitaban en esos escenarios y que ayudaban a entender mejor la situación en cada uno de los años. En cada imagen incluía la planta de la ciudad, su sección, y cartografía de Europa, finalizando con una vista aún más distante que nos hiciera comprender mejor esta utopía imaginada. Esta  evolución de la ciudad actual se basa, en parte, en la arquitectura experimental de Pascal Häusermann.

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New technologies: Present and future (2014)

I participated in a flyer design competition by the University of Seville, Spain. It was related with new technologies, more specifically the part of nanotechnology science that want to improve disabled people lives.

I wanted to give this design an elegant vibe, respecting the dignity of people with disability. So I decided to combine Braille dots with the patterns of the circuit boards of electronic components.

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Este cartel lo diseñé para un concurso de la feria del estudiante de la Universidad de Sevila. En esta edición trataba de las nuevas tecnologías, más concretamente la nanotecnología y su contribución para hacer la vida de personas discapacitadas más fácil y ayudar a su vez a la integración social.

Utilizando como patrón las placas de circuitos de los componentes electrónicos de la nanotecnología lo combiné con el método de lectura de Braille.

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Moth’s Cradle

Ink, red thread, collage and digital combination.

Got inspired by:

‘’In the warmer months of the year one or other of those nocturnal insects quite often strays indoors from the small garden behind my house. When I get up early in the morning, I find them clinging to the wall, motionless. I believe, said Austerlitz, they know they have lost their way, since if you do not put them out again carefully they will stay where they are, never moving, until the last breath is out of their bodies, and indeed they will remain in the place where they came to grief even after death, held fast by the tiny claws that stiffened in their last agony, until a draught of air detaches them and blows them into a dusty corner.’‘  _Austerlitz by W. G. Sebald

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OTORIGAMI

Some weeks ago I had to design an origami structure furniture for my history class. I worked with a friend on the design and we decided to make an origami bench that could adopt different forms adapting at the same time to the place and the requirements of the moment.  We gave a boost of interactivity to the design by creating a keyboard part that will play different melodies and city sounds.

Special bonus: David Bowie.

I created the video of the Otorigami by using the stop motion technique.

For more info of the otorigami furniture design: https://desertoftherealblog.wordpress.com/

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No limits at Llano del Rio.

I made this artwork while investigating an architect named Alice Constance Austin and her city design for a socialist “colony” called Llano del Rio in the Antelope Valley, near Palmdale. Austin, a radical feminist, was invited to design the city in a way that would make a statement against the subdivisions created by land speculators. She arranged administrative buildings, restaurants, churches, schools, markets, and so forth in a circular plan. Houses would be made of concrete, laid out in rows, with alternate facades based on individual taste. She created communal daycare areas and designed furniture that would be easy to clean, with no crevices for dust, roll away beds and heated tile floor rather than carpet, all to cut down on housework.

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Hi there, I’m Alejandra G. I want to build a place where I can post some of my creations: illustrations, drawings, photography and some videos. I use different techniques in my artwork. Some of my interests include: art, reading the hell out of anything, nature, black ink, cinnamon, tea, typography and plants. And for some unknown reason: moths.

As an architecture student, architecture is part of my life. In my artworks I am really influenced by spaces and atmospheres. I usually prefer lines for expressing all kind of things that goes through my mind.

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Hola, soy Alejandra G. Quiero crear un espacio donde poder exponer algunos de mis trabajos, entre lo que se encuentran: ilustraciones, dibujos, fotografía y algún vídeo. Mis intereses incluyen: arte, leer todo lo que caiga en mis manos, naturaleza, tinta negra, canela, té, tipografía, patrones y plantas.

Como estudiante de arquitectura, la arquitectura forma parte de mi vida. Por lo que cada uno de mis trabajos esta fuertemente influenciada por mi necesidad de capturar distintas atmósferas.