Drawn whilst standing underneath the base of a disused chute, it felt as if I had a sheltered look out point to survey the river from.

As I drew, I was very aware of the conveyor belt forcefully pulling my eye into the central area of the river.  Instead of using this to create a one way journey towards a central vanishing point, I  realised the column to my left in the foreground could be tilted backwards, to counter the rush of space towards the vanishing point towards the centre of the image. 

This seemed to make the expanse of the surface of the river more tangible and conveyed the way I felt surrounded by opposing passages of space.  My interest in depicting space in ways which do not rely on the rules of linear perspective has grown out of a love of Momoyama Period painting from Japan and 15th Century Sienese painting, as well as Early Netherlandish painting.

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