Excavating Architecture: Projects by Lead Pencil Studio

Working together since 1997 as Lead Pencil Studio, the collaborative Seattle-based duo of Annie Han and Daniel Mihalyo has created installations and interventions that blur the line between art and architecture. 

Formally trained and working as practicing architects, the two utilize the principles of architecture to investigate varying perceptions of spatial concerns. Han and Mihalyo make the invisible visible through an emphasis on negative space within rural and urban built environments. By focusing on what is not there or presenting something that is somewhat incomplete, Han and Mihalyo offer a narrative that each viewer completes. Through alternate views of the subject the artists address how our bodies interact with space to draw out an emotional reaction to space and illuminate how we perceive our surroundings.