Cyclical City or Super-fast-non-stop-everlasting-birch-tree City

This comic/graphic story is about a small town that is constantly having to adapt itself in order to meet the new challenges thrown its way. It’s my homage to the impermanence of ad-hoc assemblages and vernacular oddities, with influence coming via Hayao Mayazaki and John Hejduk. The comic itself will be played out like an architectonic ouroboros - an eternally recurring city constantly devouring itself.

I had originally started this project with the intention of making a Christmas archi-comic for some younger relatives up in Australia  (get them while their young, the usual brainwashing tactics, etc). I failed to get it ready in time, so I started sticking some of the scenes up on the Tumblr. I then got bored with the Tumblr and its vicarious pleasures*; completely forgetting about the whole project. Now I have decided to finish what I started and will henceforth begin to try to complete this mini archi-comic.

So far I have only completed 2 stages, but once finished there will be 6 different stages, consisting of 24 carefully scribble images. I hope you enjoy consuming these graphic images!

*The prophetic Canadian guy with the clever mouth has somehow summed up Tumblr 50 years before it was even invented: Marshall Mcluhan – Narcissus as Narcosis

About these ads

• 2012
• Absurd
• Architecture
• Comic
• Eternal return
• Flood
• graphic
• Hayao Miyazaki
• illustration
• John Hejduk
• Ouroboros
• Vernacular