Finished reading: Prose Architectures by Renee Gladman 📚
In Prose Architectures there’s a semblance of writing and that morphs into and out of shapes that could be landscapes or city skylines. Most of them have the feeling of continuous line drawings so there’s a sense of them being borderless without a beginning or end.
Quotes from the introduction:
“I drew out of the matter that was most central to my thinking and living, and that was the city.”
“Drawing extended my being in time; it made things slow. It quieted language. It produced a sense that thinking could and did happen outside of language.”
“I didn’t want to actually draw plans but rather wanted to use the idea of plans, the suggestion of architecture, to point elsewhere: toward a different mode of being where thinking takes the shape of buildings.”