I began this series of works in 1991. The inspiration, in large part, was the writings of Jorge Luis Borges. He described the universe as a place where the centre is everywhere and circumference nowhere. The Tower of Babel was intended to reach to heaven. To me, this meant that the Tower would need to be infinite in scale and the process of building it, endless.

At this time, I had recently begun teaching myself methods of architectural presentation. One process is called axonometric drawing, which can describe mass without perspective. There is no horizon, nor vanishing points. This approach gives me the ability to, in theory, draw to infinity in all directions.

Hence, the method in itself is metaphor, as the Tower, although historical, became metaphor. The first drawings I did were worked out in pencil, and then finished in ink. For this I used ruler and set square. The new drawings, since I became legally blind, are freehand and improvised directly in ink. This is because I can no longer hold my magnifier and drafting tools at the same time. Some of the Babel works are printed on watercolour paper and hand coloured.

I have, up until 2010, been drawing small sectors of an infinite city.
I have now begun combining these sectors into larger views. I want to show, more explicitly, how this Babel project could, in theory, result in an infinite drawing.