FORM REDUCTION

The only term that I can come up with for the drawing above is Form Reduction. It is a systematic approach, and it reduces a form from Edge, to Plane, to Line, to Dot. (EPLD). EPLDs are the basic building blocks of our transparent forms. They are the elements of geometry.
-Edge is when two planes meet.
-Plane is comprised of a minimum of three dots connected by lines
-Line is the connection of two dots.
-Dot is our most basic element,

All of our forms are comprised of these four elements. With Form Reduction, we systematically reduce each of the elements of a form. For the drawing above, I first knowledged an Ordinary Building from a photo that I took in Matera. This can be seen with the thin, black, felt tip line. And then I reduced:
-Each edge
-was reduced to a plane
-which was reduced to a line
-which was reduced to a point.
All of these operations can be seen simultaneously in the drawing.

What does this give us? Well, it certainly is a unique way to knowledge a form: it gets us Drawing Like Byzantines. I like to look at the dots, and then imagine Form Addition, in which a form is built going the other way, from dot, to line, to plane to edge: feel free to do that if you might be inspired. Or, take only the reduced lines, and then Automatic Form from there. Or try Mirror Form. Or connect the dots with Dot To Dot. The possibilities are unlimited.

This might be thought of as a cooking process, in which, thru the application of heat, a sauce is reduced. Cooking is a chemical process, which only goes one way: you can’t get back to where you started. With reduction, you get an assembly that is elemental. This reduced sauce, like our reduced form, serves first as the armature for new directions in form generation, and second as new levels of form analysis.