1...That architectural tracings are apparitions, outlines, figments.
.....They are not diagrams but ghosts.



.........................2...Tracings are similar to X-rays, they penetrate internally.



...............3...Erasures imply former existences.



4...Drawing and tracings are like the hands of the blind
....................touching the surfaces of the face in order to understand
............ a sense of volumen, depth and penetration.


..............5...The lead of an architect's pencil disappears (drawn away)
..................................................................................metamorphoses.






To take a site: present tracings, outlines, figments, apparitions,
X-rays of thoughts. Meditations on the sense of erasures.
To fabricate a construction of time.



.......................To draw out by compacting in. To flood (liquid densification)
.......................the place-site with missing letters and disappeared signatures.
.......................................................To gelatinize forgetfulness.



HEJDUK, John; Thoughts by an Architect, en: "Victims", Text I, Architectural Association, London, 1986.