Hidden Lines, Fragile Frameworks

Suite of 8 drypoints, 100 x 150 cm each. Printed on Japanese Shiramine paper

Hidden Lines, Fragile Frameworks is a suite of eight large-scale drypoints that examines the structural and conceptual foundations of urban architecture. Developed during Robinson’s two-year relocation to Europe (2018–2020), the series originated in on-site sketchbook studies of unfamiliar built environments. Each composition isolates and abstracts the underlying frameworks of architectural forms, revealing the skeletal systems that quietly support the visible surface of the city.

The works were created through an iterative process of redrawing and reduction, distilling complex structures into rhythmic arrangements of line and form. While referencing architectural draftsmanship, the series also responds to broader environmental concerns. Completed between 2019 and 2021 — amid the fires, floods, and global pandemic — the prints evoke the vulnerability of urban infrastructures in the face of climate crisis. The surrounding emptiness and silence within the compositions resonate with the desolate cityscapes of 2020, transforming these architectural studies into quiet meditations on precarity, resilience, and the unseen systems that sustain everyday life.