Noah's week two, Now with pictures!

Ill considered perspective drawing made me physically dizzy this weekend. I was sitting at a cafe in the central square of Brussels attempting to draw a few of the absurdly ornate facades that seem to line every block of that city when i had my crisis. Apparently at no point in the expensive and laborious process of constructing these buildings did anyone take the time to make anything parallel. 400 years later, and with a strange cherry flavored beer, i suffered the consequences of these little inconsistencies. an hour into the drawing i was holding up three pencils at once and trying to sight a half dozen totally arbitrary angles with nothing more than a spiderweb of inaccurate lines on my paper. 

Anything that brussels lacks in right angles though it makes up for tenfold in the details. Every inch of the city looks like it has been designed and then redesigned. Everything from the park benches to the graffiti to the typography on the always popular waffle vans is beautiful and ornate. it might be the close proximity but i was constantly seeing repetitions and patterns. A taggers quick scrawl on a storefront seemed to mimic the curling lines of the front door of the Horta Museum, which in turn owed a lot to the much older and more grandiose buildings in the central square that had given me so much trouble. plus, it's all just damn cute.