diary / by Edward Mullany

Even in architecture, where utility is a primary motivation, and perhaps even a necessary constraint, an artist will invest the design so thoroughly with the shape of their imagination that even the most mundane elements of the structure will be brought into harmony with whatever vision that person has conceived for the work’s symbolic value. Think of that house known as Fallingwater, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, in the woods of Pennsylvania, and you will know what I mean.