Discipline: Structural Notes Toward Silent Monumentalism

Title:
Silent Monumentalism — Structural Study (In Progress)

Medium:
Pencil on paper

Silent Monumentalism — Discipline in Practice (P7, P8, P9)

These pages are not drawings of objects. They are exercises in discipline — reducing form until silence, distance, space, proportion, and repetition become the structure itself.

They are not illustrations. They are methods.

P7 — Discipline of Form: Start, Duplicate, Resize



P7 – 9:23, 16 Feb 2026

This page marks the beginning of my disciplined process. Here I am not trying to draw a thing — I am trying to begin a way of working.

I start with one simple form. Then I duplicate it. Then I resize it. The drawing is not about what the shape looks like — it is about what happens when the same form is repeated and changed in scale.

For me, this is how form is thought: through proportion, repetition, and order, not through decoration or storytelling.

This drawing is not an image of something. It is a method. By repeating and resizing the form, I remove expression and leave only structure.

This is discipline because I remove storytelling and keep process.
I let method replace expression.

This is one of the core ideas of Silent Monumentalism: form as rule, not image.

P8 — A Single Disciplined Form



P8 – 9:23, 16 Feb 2026

On this page, the process is reduced to one structure. There is no reference, no context, no narrative — only the decision to stop. The form stands on its own.

I even write the word “Discipline” at the top — not as explanation, but as reminder.

There is a lot of empty space around the form. This space is not a background — it is part of the work itself. I resist the urge to add more, and the drawing becomes less about line and more about presence.

This is discipline because I stop before the drawing becomes illustrative or expressive. That restraint is exactly what Silent Monumentalism is about for me.

P9 — Two Forms, One Distance



P9 – 9:23, 16 Feb 2026

Here I introduce a second form. Nothing else is added except relation.

There are two very simple standing forms — nothing more.
There is a lot of space between them.
I do not try to connect them, decorate them, or explain them.

What matters more than the shapes themselves is their relationship. The distance between them becomes part of the structure.

This is discipline because I let space do the work instead of adding detail.

What This Practice Is — in My Words

Here I am not trying to draw things.
I am trying to draw rules.

I treat a form like a unit that I can repeat, scale, isolate, and relate to other units. This is how I think about form: through proportion, repetition, and order, not through decoration or storytelling.

These drawings are not images — they are methods. By repeating, resizing, isolating, and spacing forms, I take away expression and leave only structure.

This is discipline because I remove storytelling and keep process.
I let method replace expression.

This is a main idea behind Silent Monumentalism.

What Silent Monumentalism Means to Me

These drawings are not monuments yet. They are how monuments are thought and constructed in thought:

  • I use reduction instead of addition

  • I use repetition instead of invention

  • I use space as structure

  • I treat forms as standing presences, not pictures

  • I refuse decoration, narrative, and explanation

That is not accidental.
That is discipline.

This is what I mean by Silent Monumentalism —
not decoration, not representation,
but presence through restraint and structure.

References

https://pieterlateganstonehedge.blogspot.com/2026/02/pieter-lategans-stonehedge-theory.html
https://pieterlateganart.blogspot.com/2026/01/quiet-monumentalism-structural.html
https://pieterlateganart.blogspot.com/2026/02/silent-monumentalism-mukurob-also-kown.html
https://pieterlategansketchbook.blogspot.com/2026/02/words-pieter-lategan-2026.html
https://pieterlategansketchbook.blogspot.com/2026/02/discipline-structural-notes-toward.html
https://pieterlateganstonehedge.blogspot.com/2026/02/stonehedge-drawings.html


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