Video: Architectural maps of the fictional time of Ben Sack
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
With astonishing dedication and endless patience, artist Ben Sack takes a black liner with a 0.05mm shaft with a firm hand and begins to draw densely arranged, incredibly detailed landscapes of fictional cities with a full set of buildings, roads, rivers and bridges.
He continues to draw until the pen runs out of ink. Then he takes another pen. And then another, emptying the pens of the stationery for several months, until the picture is ready. His latest work, a huge circle-shaped drawing titled "A Single Note", has almost reached the four-meter mark in its circumference.
Sack's architectural exploration spans centuries, from Gothic cathedrals to glass skyscrapers, evoking both European-style urban planning and the astounding metropolises that science fiction writers love to describe. If you look more closely, here and there you can find well-known outlines. The artist says that he is inspired by the idea of "Western antiquity":
Stephen Wiltshire is another artist known for his incredibly detailed cityscapes. He is able to reproduce in detail from memory the city landscapes he saw only once.
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