ABSTRACT
This chapter revisits that analysis and its implicit connection to visual representation as a projection of desire to consider significance of eros in the sketch, extrapolated to include love of the other, and love of the drawing. It uses drawing journals from two architects to examine the sketch as a revelatory trace. The chapter tells the story of an inconvenient but ardent affair between them, separated as they are by distance and marital logistics, but united by professional circumstances and synergies. The chapter uses the motif of a love story to consider the sketch as a recorder of more than the visual. It deals with a prolonged, contemporary lovers' conversation through sketches, it reveals much that is intimate, like some form of visual eavesdropping. Diaries and journals have often recorded the emergence of love affairs, the pages documenting first awakenings of interest, the pivotal moments of reciprocation, and then the consolidation of mutual moments and histories into written archives of affection.
