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19/10/2025

Forgotten Corners of the World: Heidi Linck’s Enigmatic Works

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Heidi Linck is a multimedia artist based in the Netherlands. Her work explores the poetic dimension of neglected spaces and their capacity to convey a sense of loss while opening up potential forms of imagination. The encounter between collective and individual memory is expressed in both her works on paper and her photographs of models: the dark tones of her gouaches echo the somber atmosphere in which her sculptural objects are immersed.

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14/04/2024

“I called them Ghosts”. Visual Poems and Sequences by George Wylesol

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George Wylesol is a Baltimore-based artist who primarily produces illustrations and comic-like sequences of drawings, often accompanied by written text in the form of short poems. His works blend mundane objects and settings with surreal plots and visual associations, resulting in poetic yet slightly disturbing scenarios. The meticulous attention to everyday objects translates into a celebration of found artefacts, revealing glimpses of past lives and obsolete technologies, abandoned houses, and empty corridors, sparsely populated by uncanny human figures.

More on Socks: https://socks-studio.com/2024/04/14/i-called-them-ghosts-visual-poems-and-sequences-by-george-wylesol/

31/03/2024

90-Degree Axonometrics by Auguste Merle (late 19th – early 20th C.)

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Auguste Merle was an Art Brut artist living in France at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. His works depict imaginary buildings with meticulous detailing, using graphite on notebook paper.

The rigorous yet inventive forms are depicted in 90-degree axonometric projections, resonating with the paintings of Fernand Léger, Le Corbusier, with the architectural drawings of John Hejduk, and more recently, with the ones in San Rocco Magazine.

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https://socks-studio.com/2024/03/31/90-degree-axonometrics-by-auguste-merle-late-19th-early-20th-c/

24/03/2024

“One Can No Longer Distinguish the Sun’s Outline”: Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky (1930)

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A cloud atlas is a visual depiction of various types of clouds accompanied by their classification and nomenclature. Cloud atlases were primarily developed starting in the 19th century and utilised for training weather forecasters and meteorologists.

The 1930’s International Atlas of Clouds and of States of the Sky by the Office National Météorologique based in Paris provides a detailed textual description of different kinds of clouds, their shapes, the occurrences of the clouds, their behaviour, and a description of the disturbances the clouds indicate.

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04/02/2024

Alain Biltereyst: Traces of Abstraction in the Urban Environment

https://socks-studio.com/2024/02/04/alain-biltereyst-traces-of-abstraction-in-the-urban-environment/

Contemporary Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst works on abstract paintings characterized by bold patterns and colors. Most of the time, the shapes he depicts are not purely the result of chosen arrangements but act as a sort of “found art”: they are extracted from existing signs, advertisements, commercial signage, graphic decorations on trucks, billboards, and streets.

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02/12/2023

Anthony Bourdain on the late Henry Kissinger:

02/11/2023

A teach-in for all architecture students. November 11, 2023 Dear architecture students around the world Let’s face it, architecture is settler colonialism’s best friend. It is a reality that you may…

15/10/2023

The Hidden Territory: USGS’s 1950’s to 1970’s Isometric Geological Diagrams

https://socks-studio.com/2023/10/15/the-hidden-territory-usgss-1950s-to-1970s-isometric-geological-diagrams/

The online archive of the United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey is a valuable resource filled with detailed three-dimensional territorial maps employing various representational techniques.

Thanks to the work of artist, designer, and developer Jill Hubleys and their dedicated ‘X’ page, we’ve uncovered numerous isometric diagrams. Handpicked here, are a selection of them, including categories such as “Isometric Fence Diagrams”, “Isometric Cross-Section Diagrams”, and “Isometric Block Diagrams”.

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https://socks-studio.com/2023/10/15/the-hidden-territory-usgss-1950s-to-1970s-isometric-geological-diagrams/

09/08/2023

In memory of J-L Cohen, a great collection by Ross Wolfe .

A brief memorial and a collection of Cohen’s writings.

23/04/2023

Architectural Narrative: “New York City: The Edge of Enigma” by Francisco Javier Rencoret (1991)

https://socks-studio.com/2023/04/23/architectural-narrative-new-york-city-the-edge-of-enigma-by-francisco-javier-rencoret-1991/

In 1991, Francisco Javier Rencoret, a Chilean architect and then Fulbright scholar at Cornell University, published New York City: The Edge of Enigma, (Princeton Architectural Press), a visual essay that retraces the myth of the foundation and development of New York City.

Through more than 70 paintings, clearly indebted to Madelon Vriesendorp‘s illustrations of Rem Koolhaas‘ Delirious New York, and succinct texts, the author narrates the fictitious stories of the city, from the arrival of new inhabitants in an isolated island to the development of skyscrapers, Central Park and Times Square.

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https://socks-studio.com/2023/04/23/architectural-narrative-new-york-city-the-edge-of-enigma-by-francisco-javier-rencoret-1991/