Supporting drawings are an integral part of the preparatory process for the project of a public sculpture.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Urban Projects "The Pont Neuf Wrapped" (Project for Paris), Collage 1975 [online] At: https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/gallery/25293/1/christo-and-jeanne-claude-urban-projects (Accessed 24.02.2022)
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Urban Projects "Wall of Oil Drums" (Project for Museum of Modern Art, at 53rd Street, New York City), Collage 1968 [online] At: https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/gallery/25293/4/christo-and-jeanne-claude-urban-projects (Accessed 24.02.2022)
Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Urban Projects "Lower Manhattan Wrapped Buildings" (Project for New York City), Scale Model 1964 [online] At: https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/gallery/25293/4/christo-and-jeanne-claude-urban-projects (Accessed 24.02.2022)
These supporting drawings reveal the essence of the idea and make it possible to imagine what the final project will look like.
Since the example drawings convey the texture of the material used in great detail - metal, textile or plastic, in large form the idea is easy to read.
But what to do when the realization of the final project is not possible to predict, the material is very detailed or it's just a concept.
Phyllida Barlow, for example, creates the final work in progress. So I could not find preparatory drawings for the British Pavilion in Venice.
Boulders wearing makeup ... the exterior sculpture of Folly by Phyllida Barlow. Photograph: Ruth Clark/© British Council. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth [online] At: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/09/phyllida-barlow-review-venice-biennale-british-pavilion-sculpture (Accessed 24.02.2022)
Phyllida Barlow, Bad Copies. [online] At: https://www.henry-moore.org/whats-on/2012/04/12/phyllida-barlow-bad-copies# (Accessed 24.02.2022)
But I can assume that they differed from the final result. Since the tactility and materials with which the artist works can not always be predicted.
Dan Graham's work, for example, is extremely geometric, so it needs a calculation and more of a scheme than a colour drawing.
Untitled 2017, 2017 PRINT Printed cmyk digital onto mohawk itone (digital sheet) 280gsm, 36.0 x 29.0 x 3.0 cm [online] At: https://www.artspace.com/dan_graham/untitled-2017 (Accessed 24.02.2022)
Installation view, Dan Graham, Three Models, Three Sizes, Three Price Ranges, Image: John Berens, Courtesy of 303 Gallery, New York [online] At: https://www.stirworld.com/see-features-dan-graham-s-conceptual-art-practice-is-tied-to-architecture-and-built-environment (Accessed 24.02.2022)
In the trends of the modern world, it is possible to design a model and bring it into augmented reality, which will allow, if not physically feel this object, to visit real space, for example, in AR glasses.
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