Abstract
The thesis imagines Cain’s invention of weights and measures (per biblical historian, Flavius Josephus) as an attempt at reconciliation. It understands measurement – the division of a whole into equal units – to be concerned with precision, objectivity, maintenance of equilibrium, and justice. The first of three drawing series shows the Genesis creation story as a progression of spatial and architectonic icons, with respect to division. The second group of drawings looks at reconciliation in the context of a reverse creation, vis-à-vis the deconstruction of a series of still lives showing spaces reflected in, and seen through a window – a framework distilled from the first drawing sequence. The final set of drawings observes a phenomenon which reflects the creation story’s most egalitarian event (the inception of the cycle of the day), analyzing its geometry, and arraying it in the light of the other creation story phenomena – the ultimate hope being to configure with it an architecture of harmonizing spatial and temporal experience.