Orthogonal series

Prints in this series are of three types. Images digitally produced and printed as Giclee prints; text posters in limited edition silkscreen prints and as presented here, three-dimensional intaglio monoprints. In the early 1920s the industrialist Henry Frugès invited Le Corbusier to design a series of dwellings for workers in Pessac near Bordeaux. He asked that the whole district be regarded as a laboratory, in which Le Corbusier would be able to put his theories into practice. The expression, laboratory, could imply that the experiment was finished when the buildings were constructed. However, it is clear the residents considered the estate as an on-going project with which to engage. Since 1926, the site has continuously changed and regenerated as local people have personalised homes by imposing their own ideas on individual buildings. The prints in the Orthogonal series can be thought of as part of this cycle of the regeneration of ideas. They present a personal critique and interaction with the Quartiers Modernes Frugès and the modernist aesthetic of Le Corbusier through the medium of printmaking.