Party Pavilion, Kensington Garden, London

Date Of Sketch: July 22, 2018

The architectural subject matter was drawn entirely from listening to Thomas Adès’ Suite “Powder Her Face,” which characterizes in a musical composition the opulent and dissolute lifestyle of the real-life Duchess of Argyll. No one to celebrate or emulate he borrows or “steals” freely from a number of musical sources and synthesizes them into his own unique composition. Attempting to reflect what I heard musically transformed Adès’ composition into a seriously frivolous kind of architecture.