don quackenbush

I have always been visually oriented, that is what led me into Architecture.

My 30+ year architectural career has been as a “pragmatic- technically oriented architect —a non-design oriented architect—-striving to make the conceptual by others constructable and enjoyable by those who would inhabit and experience it.

now retired, i can devote more to exploring my passion for that creative side that led me into architecture initially.

My Compositions stem from what I term _generated doodles

pencil doodles— at times simple, at times complex -

these “generated doodles” serve as my springboard to explore a multitude of images & compositions.

doodles which generate and mutate from my feelings and sense of organization of components, elements and ideas and how these components generate and impact each other in theses explorations of differing forms, compositions, textures and color.

The computer is a fantastic tool just as is a pencil, pen, brush, hammer, chisel. It aids expanding the exploration and experimentation potential of these conceptualizations in their various forms, colors, shapes, compositions, textures, collages; this suggests no end to the possibilities—-off-shoots and mutations generate entirely different works feelings and emotions.

At times purely two dimensional, at other times a representation of a concept modeled in 3D from an original doodle, at times becoming a stained class composition; abstract in nature….

the ability to stir the imagination is intriguing, exciting and fascinating.

Enjoy them as much as i enjoy exploring, generating and creating these compositions.