
When Gérard Michel has been in Naples, I convinced him to partecipate to a collaborative game: Play The Panorama intend to "share an infinitely expanding horizon", creating the longest continuous panorama ever drawn. This endless relay travelogue was started in 2008 in Siberia by the Dutch artist Ronald Huynen.
He designed a drawing instrument that contains a long paper scroll that enables one to make extremely long drawings. You'll find the complete sory and rules of the game in the website.
We went to San Martino, a famous view point that has been used in the past to make circular panoramas of the city. Gérard found it difficult to draw inside the instrument so he scrolled the paper outside.
As you can see we are both left handed so we started the panorama from the right side. In the video below see Gérard's work. He is much more patiente than me, and I can tell you that any single houses is exactly like he drawn it!
I was lucky enought to have his draw as a present, in exchange of the scans I made of it.
This is mine, that makes a 360° view with Gérard's part. I drew people waiting to get in the Museo di San Martino, while the wards were on strike. We were asked to only use a pencil but I could not resist to add some red dots here and there.
See all contributors to Naples panorama, (clik here to see it continuous) that it's now 12 meters long but still a work in progress. someone is interested to join the panorama, our Panographia instrument is almost ready to travel to a new place.














5 comments:
Wonderful concept and great sketches (I'd love to try this!)
Fine, Simo...
And thanks again!!!
Gérard
Wonderful panoramic sketches! THANKS for posting them for us to enjoy and learn from!
The drawings are incredible, but I like the photos too! The one with you two sketching and the one with Gerard, the paper unfolded and the roofs of Naples.
beautiful outcome!
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