Arkitektonisk rids, et kirkerum 1907

This architectural sketch of a church interior was made by Joakim Skovgaard, but we don’t know exactly when. I love the bareness of it, the quietness of the pale paper. It feels like a ghost of a building, a whisper of a space. The drawing is all about process. You can see the faint lines, the architecture sketched and corrected, as if Skovgaard is thinking through the building right on the page. See how he’s used a grid to create the perspective? It's so open and straightforward. He is showing his working out. I'm reminded of Agnes Martin, who also used grids to make space for quiet contemplation. Like Martin, Skovgaard invites us to slow down, to find a kind of peace in the simple act of looking, and that the act of drawing can be a doorway to another world, where line and space meet, and maybe something else too.