NOTHING WILL EVER REPLACE OR SUBSTITUTE A POWER OF A SPOKEN OR WRITTEN WORD, BUT OTHER MEANS OF COMMUNICATION, SUCH AS PHOTOGRAPHS AND DRAWINGS, AT TIMES DO A MUCH BETTER JOB FINDING THE SHORTEST ROUTE TO THE HUMAN COMPREHENSION OF THE WORLD AROUND US.

DRAWINGS ARE THE LETTERS OF THE ALPHABET OF THE SPECIAL LANGUAGE USED BY SUCH PROFESSIONALS AS DESIGNERS, ARTISTS AND ARCHITECTS. DRAWINGS WILL PICK UP WHERE THE WORDS LEAVE OFF, WHERE THE HUMAN IMAGINATION OF SOME MAY NOT BE AS SUPERIOR AS THE OTHERS, LOST IN A THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLD OF AXIS, PARALLELS AND VANISHING POINTS. DRAWINGS WILL DO WHAT WORDS WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO, - SHOW WHAT DOESN'T EXIST. TRUE, JUST AS ANY OTHER MEANS OF THE VISUAL ARTS, BE IT A MOTION PICTURE, A PAINTING, OR A GRAPHIC ART, IT ALWAYS REPRESENTS ONLY ONE'S PARTICULAR INTERPRETATION OF HIS OR HER IMAGINATION. ONCE IT IS EXPRESSED VIA AN IMAGE ON A ROLL OF CELLULOID FRAMES OR A NUMBER OF LINES ON A PIECE OF PAPER, IT BECOMES A UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTOOD BY ALL; A COMMUNICATION TOOL LIKE NO OTHER.

THESE PHOTOGRAPHS AND RENDERINGS REPRESENT PART OF A FEASIBILITY STUDY TO CONVERT AN OLD PUBLIC SCHOOL INTO A COMMUNITY CENTER. THE OBJECTIVE WAS TO SHOW "BEFORE AND AFTER" EFFECTS OF A TRANSFORMATION OF THE SCHOOL GROUNDS INTO A BETTER PLACE FOR EVERYONE TO ENJOY. I'D TAKEN THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE EXISTING CONDITIONS AND THEN SUPERIMPOSED THE IMAGE OF THE PROPOSED TRANSFORMATION ON TOP OF THE EXISTING. LOTS OF NEW ELEMENTS WERE ADDED TO IMPROVE THE OLD IMAGE; FINER THINGS THAT MAKE THE WORLD AROUND US BRIGHTER AND HAPPIER, - WALKWAYS, PLANTERS, PLAYGROUNDS, PARK BENCHES, ETC. IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO MISINTERPRET A DRAWING, - IT GOES TO THE HEART OF THE PROBLEM AND SHOWS THE SOLUTION. NO WORDS MAY DO THE SAME JOB SO CLEARLY. THIS IS THE POWER OF THE ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATION.

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