The Tools of Creation

written by Elke Krasny

 

A pencil in a hand gliding swiftly over the paper, a hand on the mouse moving expertly around the screen, somebody standing at a trestle table slowly scrutinizing the different layers of yellow trace marking the sketchy steps of design under construction. It is the familiarity of the scene conjuring the epitome of an architect at work all over the globe which is at the same time intriguing and deceiving.