Material

Plaster

Applied finishes rather than drawn ones. Trowel is the blade: overlapping passes, each thin where it lifted and loaded where it bit, with the edge of the last pass showing through. Wash is water — limewash settling into bands, tadelakt burnished to a bloom, the salt and oxide that come up through a wall over years. Concrete is what the formwork left behind. Drawn large, because plaster has no repeat of its own: at the recommended repeat a wall reads as one surface, not as a pattern.

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