Michael Dean Springer Studio

"Frida" study sketch, charcoal on newsprint.
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"Ruth and Thomas," charcoal on toned paper. This is an older drawing that keeps popping up in my memories by Facebook. I am not sure I've ever shared it here on this newer account, so here it is in a tightly cropped version of the original.
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(Face of Tulsa project)
©2016 lespring

A simple study sketch for "The Tethered," charcoal, ©2024.
One of the three figures in the final work to come.
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Fifty-two years ago today, "Modern architecture died in St Louis, Missouri on July 15, 1972, at 3.32pm (or thereabouts)." So wrote the polemicist Charles Jencks.

Pruitt-Igoe was demolished on this day, which was critically proclaimed the day the modernist dream had failed. It was shouted that Architecture had failed us.

I've long been working on a "Windows -project," part of which included the survivors of Pruitt-Igoe, showing the "8 Reasons why Architecture did not die at Pruitt-Igoe". Here are two old study sketches.
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