Sarah ChangeziArchitecture · Bombay

Sheet 08.1IdentityPencil, brush pen, digitalAt the scale of a stamp

It starts here

A fist and a pencil, drawn into one mark. I wrote the name as a question on the first page, It starts here?, then worked the mark out in pencil, on a grid and in ink.

Pages
15, in pencil and brush pen, and two digital versions
On the page
It starts here? · ISH · single color · feather pen · ink
Inked
Six marks, one to a sheet

01The fist on its pencil point, inked in brush pen and traced for the screen.

A question, with a pencil in its fist.

The first page is mostly objects and words: a quill, an inkwell lettered INK, a megaphone, a pencil with its point snapped off, and a tall fist hatched until it becomes a pencil. Across the top: It starts here?

A sketchbook page in pencil: block fists, a quill, an inkwell marked INK, a megaphone, a hatched fist that turns into a pencil, and notes: It starts here?, ISH, single color, feather pen.
02The first page. Pencil in a sketchbook.

The fist on the pencil.

On the next pages the fist sits on the pencil like a cap, then the two become one outline. Four large studies hold the main directions: a tall fist on a pencil, a rounded fist with a speech tail, the same squared off, and a hatched, angular fist.

Pencil page headed It starts here, with ISH in block letters and fist-and-pencil studies, from a realistic fist on a pencil to faceted geometric fists.
03It starts here, written out, and the fist settling onto the pencil.
Four large pencil fists: a tall fist on a pencil, a rounded fist with a speech tail, a squared fist with a speech tail, and a hatched angular fist.
04Four directions, drawn large.

Fingers as blocks, the point as a triangle.

Then the hand is rebuilt from rectangles: four finger blocks, a thumb laid across them, an outline cut to an octagon or a shield, and a pencil point tried serrated, stepped and plain. Two notes in the margin: fill here is fine? and remove this?

Pencil construction page: a fist on a pencil body, serrated and stepped pencil-tip edges, a long diagonal fist-pencil, and shield-shaped hatched fists, noted fist and pencil.
05Points and edges.
Grid of pencil perimeter tests for the fist: rectangles for fingers, a tall fist-pencil, a rounded fist with a speech tail, angular fist-pencils shaded and open.
06Outlines.
Octagonal and shield-shaped fist-pencils constructed on pencil grids, beside a realistic fist over a pencil with a serrated edge.
07On the grid.

Six inkings, laid over each other.

Six of the studies were inked in brush pen, one mark to a sheet. Laid one over another, the six show what every version kept.

Down to sixteen pixels.

On the first page I wrote single color. Here the inked marks run from sixteen pixels up, on paper and reversed out of the ink.

Digital version: a black rounded fist with a speech tail, on grey.
08Digital: the rounded fist.
Digital version: a white angular fist on a pencil point, on black.
09Digital: on its point, reversed.

Two directions went on to the screen.

Identity study, undated.