The Metes and Bounds of Maryville

The city is relatively small but its rich layers of architecture grow from a pasture in upper east Tennessee. The image is a reaction to John Greene’s question, “When observation fails to align with a truth, what do you trust--your senses or your truth? Within the city are plans, sections and elevations that expand and contract as the architecture breathes life into dead materials. In Maryville, the senses comingle with truth. Each is relative to the other. The warped realities have no up or down; left or right. No one can ever be certain if, looking inward, the buildings are their truth or if, in fact, looking outward, the city’s architecture reflects their beauty…ink; graphite; spray enamel; acrylic; oil; metallic paint markers; hand smudges.