GALLERY EXHIBITION
Real, live, transparent drawings will be on display at The Smithy, an art gallery in Cooperstown. My drawings are part of a larger show with various artists, titled Interior Spaces. As Janet Erway, Executive...
Monthly Archive: July 2016
THE VISUALIZATION OF SCIENCE
Of the most interesting tangents of these pages is the visualization that is at the core of science. When you start a project like Transparent Drawing, you don’t know all of the tangents that...
BACKGROUNDS
Putting a background tone on drawings is a great thing. A background can serve as a contrast to the content of a drawing. When you fill the entire page with a tone, the graphic...
SCIENTIFIC CREATIVE URGE
Science is driven by the creative urge. This may seem antithetical. Our conventional understanding of science and it’s methods revolves typically around understanding. Galileo, with his telescope, looked to the heavens. And with his...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING MANIFESTO
We launch this manifesto of tumbling and incendiary sight, this manifesto through which today we set up Transparent Drawing, because we want to deliver problem solvers from their gangrene of representation, perspective construction, and...
TRANSPARENT THINKER
Laslo Maholy-Nagy was a transparent thinker. This revelation came thru loud and clear at the current Guggenheim show, Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, in NYC. When you think of Maholy-Nagy, you generally think of Constructivist work. ...
THE SHELLS WE LIVE IN
We have adopted the word enclosure to describe the objects that we design and draw. Let’s substitute shell for enclosure and see if we derive any further understanding. That is to say, imagine any...
DOES THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD EXIST?
Is there a scientific method? This is the question that James Blachowicz asks in their New York Times article. In these pages, we have been questioning the scientific method. For background, see SCIENTIFIC METHOD...
IMAGINATION AND MEMORY
The photographs that we take and the drawings that we make are a form of memory. They are a form of witnessing and seeing. The things that we see; a form, a detail, a...
GRAPHITE AND DIAMOND
Graphite and diamond are both forms of pure carbon. The graphite that we use in our pencils and the diamond that we wear on our fingers is the same stuff. It is just that...
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