Monthly Archive: June 2017
MANUAL CRAFT
The analogue drawing, is a piece of manual craft. “…the drawing arts become manifest through manual craft – that they inherently posses a basis in artisanship- even when they allow us to see nonesistent...
QUOTIENT SUMMARY
This page provides a summary of the quotients that have been established so far in these pages. PROVENANCE QUOTIENT – This value quantifies the origins of our designs. The more original the provenance, the...
CHILD’S VIEW
As humans, we first understand the world without words. “Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.” There is nothing like a John Berger quote to get the blood...
VOLUBILIS VISITOR’S CENTER
The visitor’s center at Volubilis, Moroco, is very good. It is always interesting to be presented with a visitor’s center when traveling. Of course, visitor’s centers are built at popular tourist destinations. These centers...
100% HUMAN
At Transparent Drawing, the only drawing that has value is one that is produced analogue. If the graphic is not 100% analogue, you can’t call it a drawing. See ANALOGUE DRAWING. And the...
FRANCIS BACON 2
Francis Bacon: “Tell me, who today has been able to record anything that comes across to us as a fact without causing deep injury to the image?” Sebastian Smee, on page 54 of The...
STONE OBSESSION
I suddenly became obsessed with stones. Standing stones, to be exact. In the Volubilis site in Morocco. As I was walking thru the ruins, I suddenly became fascinated with large stones that were still...
DESIGN PROVENANCE
Where does the true value of a design lie? What constitutes the cultural value of a design? It is the Design Provenance. Provenance. That’s the best word I can come up with that quantifies...
THE DRAWING FUNCTION
A few pages ago, we spoke about drawing in and drawing out. And we made the analogy of drawing to breathing. The word that we typically apply to breathing is function. We talk about...
REPRESENTATIONAL TRANSPARENCY
Once in a great while, I take a photo that I really, really like. The photo at left is in this category. This was taken while in what was called the Prison de Kara,...
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