Pieter Lategan | SKETCHBOOK - my framework silent monumentalism : March 2026

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Silent Monumentalism - Pieter Lategan | STUDIO

Sketchbook drawing by Pieter Lategan showing a fragmented geometric structure with shaded planes suggesting a form emerging from a wall, exploring mass, depth, and spatial tension

Silent Monumentalism
Pieter Lategan 2026

Modimolle South Africa

Sketchbook Notes

This sketch explores a more complex structural form.

The shape feels like it can stand out of a wall or exist as a built structure.
There is a strong central mass, but too many planes and shading create noise.

The drawing becomes more narrative because of the detail and fragmentation.
The structure starts to lose clarity.

This shows the need to reduce the form to its main planes.
The core shape must be isolated and simplified.

The intention is to move this toward a stable structure that can hold without shading or detail.

Sketchbook drawing by Pieter Lategan showing a simplified abstract geometric form placed within a wall plane, exploring structure, balance, and reduction in silent monumentalism

Silent Monumentalism — Wall Structure Study (Sketchbook, 2026)
Pieter Lategan

This sketch continues the reduction of a complex form into a single structure.

The drawing removes shading and focuses on line and plane, but the form is still fragmented and slightly restless.

The next step is to simplify the shape further, reduce directional changes, and allow the structure to stand and hold without movement.

The work is moving toward a flat wall-based structure with minimal contrast.

Sketchbook drawing by Pieter Lategan showing a simplified geometric wall-based structure with reduced lines and a grounded composition, exploring balance and quiet presence

Silent Monumentalism — Grounded Wall Structure (Sketchbook, 2026)

This sketch moves closer to a calm and reduced structure.

The form is simplified and begins to hold in space, with less fragmentation and fewer directional changes.

The structure is becoming more grounded, but some edges still feel uncertain and slightly expressive.

The next step is to reduce the angles further, strengthen the connections, and allow the form to rest more naturally within the wall plane.

The intention is to create a structure that stands without movement, explanation, or emphasis.

Silent Monumentalism — Directional Structure Study (Sketchbook, 2026)

Pieter Lategan

This sketch explores further reduction of structure into a single directional form.

The drawing becomes lighter and more minimal, but loses some sense of weight and grounding.

The structure begins to feel too sharp and slightly unstable, introducing a sense of movement rather than rest.

This shows the importance of maintaining mass and balance within the form.

The next step is to reintroduce weight, reduce sharp angles, and allow the structure to sit more firmly within the space.

Two sketchbook drawings by Pieter Lategan showing layered curved and angular line structures, exploring spatial movement and arch-like forms, not yet reduced into stable silent monumentalism structures

Silent Monumentalism — Spatial / Atmospheric Study (Not Discipline) (Sketchbook, 2026)
Pieter Lategan

These drawings explore space through movement and repeated lines.

Both sketches show a similar interest in a large curved space or vault-like structure.
There is a sense of enclosure and directional movement across the page.

However, this is not Silent Monumentalism yet.

The drawings are too active and become emotional and atmospheric rather than structural.
Too many lines create noise and remove stability.

The forms are not clearly defined as planes, and the structure does not fully hold or rest.

This type of drawing becomes expressive and exploratory, but not disciplined.

This page is important as a record of what the work should not become.

The next step is to extract the main structure and reduce it to a few clear, grounded planes with strong outlines and minimal lines.

The focus must move from movement to control, and from expression to structure.

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Silent Monumentalism - Pieter Lategan | STUDIO

Silent Monumentalism - Stones/Glass (Construction Study)
Pieter Lategan 2026
Modimolle South Africa

Structural sketch exploring simplified planes and spatial balance. Part of an ongoing Silent Monumentalism study.

Silent Monumentalism — Structural Study (Sketchbook, 2026)
Pieter Lategan

Notes:

In this sketch I started to think in structure rather than detail.

The focus shifts from drawing many elements to constructing a few large planes in space.
This is important for the discipline, because the work must hold through structure and not through description.

There are still too many lines.
The lines repeat and do not clearly begin or end.
This makes the drawing feel uncertain and searching.

Because the forms are not clearly closed, the image becomes slightly narrative.
It starts to describe rather than stand.

This is important to recognise.

The drawing must move toward:

• fewer lines
• clearer edges
• closed forms
• defined planes

The blocks must become larger.
More space must be left empty.
Simplicity is essential.

Three-dimensional form does not need complexity.
Simple planes are enough for the work to hold.

Discipline:

This work belongs to Silent Monumentalism.

It is based on:

structure
mass
space
relation

If too many lines or details are added, the work shifts into:

• narrative
• emotion
• illustration

This must be avoided.

The structure must come first.
Everything else is secondary.

Pieter Lategan
March 2026
Pretoria, South Africa

Sketchbook drawing by Pieter Lategan showing three simplified block forms with reduced lines, exploring structure, space, and balance in silent monumentalism

Silent Monumentalism — Reduced Structure Study (Sketchbook, 2026)
Pieter Lategan

In this sketch I reduced the objects and used fewer lines.

I focused on the main structure and not on detail.
The lines are more controlled and the forms are more clear and closed.

The sketch starts to hold better in space.
There is more empty space and less noise.

This is closer to my discipline of Silent Monumentalism, where the work is about structure and not about story or detail.

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