As I read the article ‘Iron Ivy,’ I get a grater understanding into what the fire escape has grown to represent, with the drawings I attempt to illustrate its structural counterparts with pen, ink and water colour.

A BALCONY, A BOX SEAT, A VIEWING PLATFORM.

With its iconic significance being highlighted, the fire escape was first developed as a ladder on wheels. Since its initial mobile structure, it has grown to form fixed structures on both buildings and our minds as we associate them as being characteristic of certain neighbourhoods. Lastly, I contrast the naturalistic creeper agains the iron manifestation of the human mind.