This A3 drawing was the first formal drawing that I completed in my unique style. The previous mazes that I created were during my studies and in my childhood which were primarily doodles. The composition of this drawing was inspired by a very obscure black and white engraving produced in 1833 illustrating all of the principle tall structures in the world at the time. A colour lithograph composed in 1884 with a similar composition is pictured below due to the absence of any image.

During the repetitive image capture work that I was performing, I had the idea to draw a similar image with a personal twist. This image would contain all of the towers that I had ascended. My learnings about architectural section drawings in my post graduate studies together with my love of mazes came together in this first drawing. Instead of a drawing showing the elevations (front view of any given building) I simply used the outlines of those structures that I had ascended. For example, in Experienced I, Tower 42 sits to the right, and the Hotel Ukraina in Moscow is the crowning glory in the centre of the piece. Inside the structure, voids are shaped like the outlines of smaller buildings such as the Salisbury Cathedral in the centre.

The drawing is scaled at 1:500, like all of the illustrations in the series to give a uniformity between the works. My house is also included in the drawing, so that there is a direct comparison between it and those giant skyscrapers. The maze itself does not hold any particular meaning, it is a whimsical meander which educates, lays bare the absurdities of popular culture and all else in between.

This piece is one of the few where I only used a parallel motion (long ruler attached to the drawing board) to compose the floors and walls – all of the doors and objects illustrated within were drawn free hand.