B1-549 Flight Study 2 by Peter Burke is a carbon drawing that continues the artist’s exploration of the staircase as an abstracted system of movement, transition, and psychological passage. As part of his wider body of work, the drawing distils the architectural motif of the flight of stairs into a sequence of marks that suggest structure, rhythm, and directional flow without resolving into a fixed or literal environment. Executed in carbon, the work emphasises immediacy, tonal depth, and the sensitivity of hand-drawn gesture. The surface is built through layered shifts of pressure and density, creating a sense of spatial ambiguity in which steps, intervals, and voids appear and dissolve. Rather than depicting a coherent architectural object, the drawing evokes the experience of movement through an indeterminate space, where orientation is continually reconfigured by perception. Within Burke’s practice, Flight Study 2 reflects a parallel investigation to his sculptural works in steel and gold leaf. Where the sculptures engage with material weight, construction, and surface transformation, the drawings operate as more intimate explorations of the same conceptual territory. Here, the staircase is reduced to its essential logic: a sequence of transitions that implies both ascent and descent, stability and uncertainty. The ambiguity of the composition allows the staircase to function as a psychological rather than purely physical structure. It becomes a diagram of thought and memory, where movement is internalised and experienced as a shifting mental landscape. This aligns with Burke’s broader concern with how contemporary industrial and technological environments shape human perception, reducing complex spatial experiences to fragmented, navigable moments. Measuring 45 x 45 cm, Flight Study 2 maintains the contained intensity of a working study, reinforcing its role as both investigation and reflection. The drawing does not resolve the staircase into a definitive form but instead holds it in a state of openness, where meaning is continually generated through the viewer’s engagement with its shifting tonal structure and implied movement through space and time.