Then & Now: Life as a Sketcher
Artist Talk description
In this artist talk, Michael Sánchez describes his journey from a wide-eyed college student traveling from Denmark to Italy to over 30 years as a landscape architect. He focuses on the transformational experience of travel sketching, using sketchbooks as a means to record light, texture, cultural patterns, and urban and rural spaces. These drawings shifted his view of place and informed many aspects of his design process. The talk traces how consistent observational sketching during travel developed his ability to connect natural systems with human use and the built environment, showing sketching as a practical tool that built his drawing skills and landscape architecture approach.
