syracuse NEW YORK
Syracuse University
Critic: Jonathan LOUIE
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Thomas KUEI: The hatch is a series of marks on a page laid out systematically. It is a representational technique that has evolved, taken up different values, and utilized in different ways over time as technologies and practices have changed.
- Thomas KUEI, Hatch is Hatch: Building Building Drawings, Interior Perspective
- Thomas KUEI, Hatch is Hatch: Building Building Drawings, Interior Perspective
- Thomas KUEI, Hatch is Hatch: Building Building Drawings, Interior Perspective
- Thomas KUEI, Hatch is Hatch: Building Building Drawings, Interior Perspective
- Thomas KUEI, Hatch is Hatch: Building Building Drawings, Interior Perspective
- Thomas KUEI, Hatch is Hatch: Building Building Drawings, Interior Perspective
Today, the hatch is used symbolically as a way of communicating a drawing and has no direct relationship to the represented subject. However, by looking back at drawing practices, we start to understand that the hatch has material consequences and is no longer solely illusory. The act of making a mark allows for the process to be read in the final image and has a tangible depth. This thesis looks at how constructed matter, including drawings from hundreds of years ago, etchings by Piranesi, and materials from a building and its surrounding landscape are substrates that support the multiple ways in which hatches are deployed can be understood. This thesis projects upon art theorists who have developed ways to categorize imaging techniques such as painting to inform a new system of classification and deployment that broadens our collective understanding of what a hatch is and does.
