Process Study — The Architecture of Power and Its Absence Pieter Lategan — 3 March 2026
Developed during a period of global instability, this work investigates the structural void that follows concentrated power. P78 P78 Pieter Lategan 2 March 2026 Pretoria, South Africa Title: News Why I will no longer use photos or news articles about current events on my art blog. Reasons: – It shifts my work into political commentary. – It dates the work and weakens its timeless quality. – It threatens the discipline of Narrative Monumentalism. – It becomes reactive instead of structural. – It risks becoming sensational rather than disciplined. Narrative Monumentalism must not depend on headlines. Instead, I will use symbolism: Architecture. Emptiness. Light. Structure. Silence. Narrative Monumentalism depends on discipline — not on sensational headlines. Pieter Lategan 2 March 2026 Pretoria, South Africa Page 79 Page 79 What is happening here is: Silent → reduction Structural → mass Narrative → psychological charge All of this becomes my visual philosop...