Spatial Accretion: Tema Market - Ghana - Crop#8
This is an extract from a larger drawing that showcases the effervescence at the daily local market in Tema, a coastal city located near Accra, Ghana.
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This drawing is part of my Spatial Accretion series.
accretion : noun the process of new layers or matter being slowly added to something" from Latin accretio(n-), from accrescere 'become larger', from ad- 'to' + crescere 'grow'.
Oxford English Dictionary
Each drawing focuses on a place - whether it’s a room, a neighborhood or a whole city. Each drawing is based on the memory I keep of this place. It captures the spirit of the place rather than the place itself. It brings to light what was salient to me when I experienced the place, silencing thus other elements. Through this reverie, I don't render the place as is like he would for an architectural project but recreate it focusing on the experience I've had of it and breaking it down into a multiplicity of spatial sequences. Each spatial sequence represents a point of view.
The spatial sequences of the place and their topology are reduced to fragments that are then reassembled. Not juxtaposed though but carefully intertwined. The drawing captures a place at time T from the perspective of an omniscient observer. The interweaving of different perspectives of a same place in the same drawing gives a reality to a multidimensional reverie despite the unidimensional support medium used to transcribe it. The interweaving of different perspectives of a same place in the same drawing contributes in the end to create a new place: the one that lives in my memory. The one that has been shaped by my experience.
