Mukurob (Gods Finger) Sketches Ideas - Namibia

 

P10

In the center of the page, there is a drawing made of rectangular/vertical shapes:

• A tall vertical rectangle at the top with a circled “1” inside it.

• Below it, another vertical rectangular shape with a circled “2” inside it.

• There are horizontal lines crossing behind/through these shapes, like a platform or level.

• There are vertical side lines forming a larger frame around the lower shape.

• There is a downward arrow pointing from the lower shape.

Artist Statement

This body of work is part of a discipline I call Silent Monumentalism — a way of thinking about form, space, and presence that comes before narrative or representation.

In these drawings, I focus on structure rather than description. The work is not about drawing known objects or scenes, but about drawing rules — lines and proportions that carry presence without explanation. I use reduction, repetition, and spacing to build forms that stand quietly, like monuments in thought.

The sketches show a process of discipline:

• Repetition and scaling of simple rectangular forms

• Minimal structures that are intentional, not decorative

• Space and connection woven into the drawing itself

The technical drawing refines this into a clean, precise composition: two connected rectangles in relation, tied together by one continuous line structure — simple, exact, and unmoved by narrative.

This work is not about what the forms mean.
It is about how they exist.

→ Positive

→ Negative

x2

Design

Silent Monumentalism
Pieter Lategan
Pretoria South Africa
17 Feb 2026
9:23
P9

References: 

https://pieterlategansketchbook.blogspot.com/2026/02/discipline-structural-notes-toward.html
https://pieterlategansketchbook.blogspot.com/2026/02/where-silent-monumentalism-begins.html