Impossible Ladder or Tool for Transit

Once again, the ladder appears in my drawings, though this time it departs from its traditional architectural form. This series marks the beginning of a project in which the tools of the draughtsman intertwine with shapes and concepts, generating both visual and symbolic dislocations. I appropriate the painter’s folding ladder, fragment it and reassemble it into a structure of three sections that twists into a kind of “impossible figure”—a form that folds back onto itself. This gesture, exclusive to the two-dimensional realm, belongs to the reality of the draughtsman, who manipulates perspective to create the illusion of impossibility.

Through this daily interaction with a utilitarian object—linked to the acts of ascending, descending, moving, and working—meanings begin to expand. A deeper dialogue emerges between artistic practice and the perceptual field of the draughtsman, where the ladder’s symbolic capacity as a metaphor for mystical or hierarchical transition becomes altered. The reconstruction process leans toward the absurd, blurring the line between the dystopia evoked in the drawings and the uncertainty of the artistic profession itself, where process is defined by the ongoing confrontation between doubt and persistence.