Presently finishing up the drawing representing one of the dwellings built for the Tale. It is my 30-60 manipulation of an isometric projection, also called the John Hejduk projection, named after the then-director of Cooper Union! He is the one who sent me packing when I tried to tell him that it was intolerable to teach students how to design castles for millionaires at a school situated in the middle of the New-York homeless district (the Bowery in the 70s).

On the other hand, my exclusion form the school of architecture gave me a chance to transfer to the Art department across the street, where I met Leo Amino … The rest is (my modest) history!

The purely conceptual way Hejduk has perfected the representation of his own, mostly unbuilt, houses has nothing to do with architecture as a builders’ trade and everything to do with the art of designing the conceptual spaces his tale-like constructions would require for themselves to glow. I find it well fit for my purpose! Without a single word, Hejduk’s work (and the Tale) speaks of expanding the mind, pausing and imagining maybe, but surely not of the materiality of architecture (or sculpture)!