Pieter Lategan | STUDIO
2026
Today marks the beginning of a new sketchbook direction: Gravitas.
Gravitas is being developed as a discipline within Silent Monumentalism. It will become a way for me to study balance, space, weight, proximity, silence, and material presence through drawings, diagrams, notes, objects, and future sculptural studies.
The work is still at the beginning.
At this stage, I am not presenting a finished visual language. I am opening a field of investigation.
The first studies will focus on:
- grounded base masses
- cantilevers
- constructed voids
- vertical pressure
- supporting volumes
- secondary platforms
- structural tension
- forms that feel quiet, heavy, and controlled
I am especially interested in the idea that empty space is not always empty.
A void can carry pressure.
A gap can create tension.
A small object can hold monumental presence.
The first drawings and structural studies will follow soon. They will begin to show how Gravitas may look, how it may be built, and how it may become part of the wider language of Silent Monumentalism.
For now, this note is the starting point.
Kevin Eikenberry - What Gravitas REALLY Means?
Pieter Lategan
Pieter Lategan | STUDIO
Pretoria / Gauteng, South Africa
6 May 2026