CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/16/2018

Beauty and strangeness in 'Michael Webb: Two Journeys'

This early version of Michael Webb's plan projection for a cone of vision related to his epic, fantastic, ongoing, decades-long Henley project, is reproduced from the new monograph, Michael Webb: Two Journeys, published by Lars Müller. "Webb's Henley drawings are mood pieces," Lebbeus Woods writes, "even highly analytical ones, the projection drawings, the dot-matrix drawings, the perceptual diagrams—these are imbued with feelings that defy conclusive explanations. Their essential mystery is the source of a power to fascinate and inspire, calling to mind [Francis Bacon's] epigram: 'There is no beauty that does not have about it a little strangeness.'"