This document describes several projects by the artist involving illustrated documentation and mapping of complex processes: 1. As a "spy-illustrator" in Actopolis, the artist produces drawings to document meetings and register information as an "info processing agent", making the various facets of discussions visually accessible. 2. In Mons Invisible, the artist uses illustration and documentation to map out a complex discussion, representing it as a circular drawing to symbolize equality and sharing. 3. In Mons La Fontaine, the artist creates a conceptual drawing telling the story of how two realities - the physical construction and dynamic inhabiting - intersect and influence each other over time.

1. “I work best when imagination
is as valuable as reality”.
Henning Mankell (Political Activist)

2. GRAPHIK AUFNAHME
Actopolis, 2015 – Oberhausen, Germany
As a “spy-illustrator” flies through Actopolis meeting drawings are produced
and information registered. This “info processing agent” makes visible and accessible
the various facets of the discussion and debate between the present artists, curators
and art producers. The year to come focused debate is digested as a visual database
of the process is produced.
drawing
performance
action

4. MAPPING THE INVISIBLE
Mons Invisible (Mons2015 European Capital of Culture), 2015 – Mons, Belgium
Between illustration and the compression and documentation of a complex process
we discover an interesting research field. The discussion drew us to a circle and for several
reasons it seemed the most evident choice; the circle is the only perfect shape in which
all its points are at the same distance from the centre, becoming a symbol of equality and
sharing, with no hierarchy. Also, it responds perfectly to the need of having several people
working simultaneously from any side. This kind of “Illustrated Investigation Journalism”
becomes a cartography that allows us to make visible a lot of complexities and work on
the parameters that actually draw the project. By doing it as a collective action the issues
that rise - inside the illustration process itself – are very similar to the ones of any urban
evolution process. The scale and the constraints are different but it’s the same in its basics:
discussion, debate, compromise, negotiation and history.
conceptual
drawing
interpretation

8. MONS LA FONTAINE
Mons Invisible (Mons2015 European Capital of Culture), 2015 – Mons, Belgium
Making visible the (hi)story of this suspended garden generated a fable like kind
of narrative. It tell the story of how such a place was occupied, built and inhabited
“opening the source” of the hidden code on how it was done and creating a accessible
and shared base for this specific knowledge sharing. Like the forces between chemical
elements, the forces operating between individuals are difficult to observe directly.
Anyway if we observe cities and built environments we can unveil some of them.
As a building takes shape wills are put into reality and spaces gain meaning.
This drawing tells the story on how two realities superimpose, interact and change
one another: one more physical – the construction – and another one more fluid
and dynamic – the “inhabiting”.
conceptual
drawing
interpretation

12. MENTAL MAPS
Production, Always – Itinerant
Using ways of crossing concepts with alternative ways to vehiculate them is a constant
exercise. Whatever is available and at reach notebooks, paper, cardboard, scrap, pieces
of wood,… - rapidly becomes a communication support, the place to try new forms of
expression, information registration or idea documentation.
graphic practice,
various media

14. MAPPING NEXT FUTURE
Bathin Culture 2015 – Göteborg, Sweden
Potential map. There are layers of information, which we do not get from regular plans
and brief site visits. In previous planning projects we started to map these layers of subjec-
tive findings and programmatic overlays in what are termed ‚potential maps‘. A ‚potential
map‘ is intended as a means of collecting, visualising and locating all the existing uses,
hidden qualities and potential players for a specific public space. Together with Platsbyg-
gnad, we have begun to draw a potential map for the Jubilee Parkshould be displayed to
the general public and be constantly updated. It could become a tool for communication,
participation and negotia­tion for the building of this new neighbourhood and park
common imaginary
mapping

18. MUR DE COLORIAGE
Mons2015 European Capital of Culture, Manif ideal, 2015 –Belgium
The drawing is not a simple illustration but more like a cartography that reaches to make
evident the invisibles that run throughout all the process. Making this cartography allows
us to make visible a lot of different processes at the same time and work on the parame-
ters that actually draw the project. This illustration tells the story about the Mons2015
European Capital of Culture, for diferent people and ages. It prints on a big format that
works as interactive medium to color it.
graphic interaction
various media

20. drawing
social processes
OPEN CODE
Internationale Bauausstellung (IBA) ,Haus der Stadistik 2015/2016 – Germany
Be it in meetings, round tables, discussions, complex and multilayered long or short pro-
cesses a lot of processual information gets lost. Our aim is to adapt, conceive and try me-
thodologies to “commoning” communication. Superimpose and condensate the “visible”
and “invisible” – times, concepts, connections… – in order to generate alternative ways of
communication, interaction and documentation. Generate processes that go further than
the traditional text – sometimes cryptical and time consuming to decode – and pictures –
usually very momentaneous and partial captures of reality.