This piece is similar to ‘Experienced 1’ both in its composition and root concept because it is a collection of building outlines that have been superimposed into a maze. However the twist with this piece is that all of the buildings depicted have been demolished. From left to right you have the Singer building (the tallest building ever destroyed until the Twin Towers fell in 2001), the Morrison Hotel in Chicago (the first building with over 45 floors outside of New York) and Old St Pauls Cathedral, destroyed in 1680, 14 years after the Great Fire of London.

Singer Building RIP 1967, Morrison Hotel RIP 1962

It is by far the bleakest drawing in the Imagined Buildings series. The negative (white) spaces are represented by the round radomes at Fylingdales in North Yorkshire and the Pulitzer building in New York (the latter demolished in 1955). The Nelsons Pillar (destroyed in 1966 by IRA bombers in Dublin) and a row of dilapidated London terraced houses also feature here. This is one of my more playful pieces, I simply added whatever was on my mind when I was at a certain part in the drawing process and the maze grew organically within the framework of the overall drawing’s composure.

Demolition of some imaginary London stock terraced houses.

The composition is different from the other drawings in the series, because the Morrison Hotel building is relatively wide, I thought it would be good to have this as the centre point, the Singer building to the right draws the eye across and down to the Old St Pauls Cathedral.