sona gevorkyan
Effeminate Reality
Throughout my architecture career, both as a student and as a professional, I felt uneasy and sometimes discouraged to show my aesthetic preferences and design work. By using of certain colors, forms, and surface treatments I was made feel as if my work was too feminine and frivolous and I felt like I had to tone it down or stop pursuing. I have been seeing more acceptance for this type of visual language in the recent years and Ai makes these experiments and iterations much easier to execute and test (for reaction). In this series, I have used prompts connoting to fashion/textiles such as lace, crochet, pleat, macrame, fold, drape, weave, etc...
Petals
My investigations revolve around my overarching fascination with effeminate architecture. This involves the artful combination of delicate and fleeting elements, such as flower petals, with the enduring building body, with the goal of eliciting a sense of contrast that evokes complex emotions in the viewer, including the feeling of the familiar but also preternatural.
Arch Hive