STOP, SNAP AND ROLL
A bicycle is the best way to see a countryside. I came to this realization during our recent bicycle tour thru Croatia. On a bike, it is wonderfully easy to stop, snap a photo...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING
NOT NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC
When I was a kid, our family used to take National Geographic magazine. I will always remember being absolutely stunned by the photographs. Then, when I was in high school, my parents bought me...
JAMAICA DINING ROOM
I did this sketch about 2.5 years ago. It is of a dining room in Jamaica. It is one of the few transparent sketches that I did in situ. I started the sketch during...
FOCUSED PHOTOGRAPHY
Matera, Italy is mind blowing. I think I would like to offer a course which might be titled Form Appreciation. The course would be of benefit to both practicing architects as well as architecture...
MODERNIST PURITY
Modernism is alive and well in Split, Croatia. In fact, when you really start to look closely, the purity of the modernist buildings is unbelievable. This realization came to us as we were on...
DRAW NOTHING
How do you draw nothing? That question occurred to me while I was reading the excellent article on Michael Heizer, “A Monument to Outlast Humanity” by Dana Goodyear in the 29 August 16 New...
TRAVEL ADVISORY
We will be traveling for the next two weeks. I have this fantasy of providing travel related transparent drawings while on the trip. Who knows if I will have the motivation to actually do...
MUSEUM PROCEDURE
Everyone at a museum show has their phones out taking photos of the wonderful artwork. What you don’t see people doing is taking a photo of the name of the artwork. You need to...
DREAMS ARE FACTS
Dreams are facts. In analytic psychology, dreams are the elements of what is going on in a person’s unconscious. “Soon I realized that it was right to take the dreams in this way as...
DRAWING MACHINES
Since the beginning, machines have been developed with the goal of reducing subjective human interpretation. This thought has been with us since the 17th century, and has basically been unchanged into today. And of...
SCIENTIFIC MODERNISM
This is how scientific discovery happens. Scientific discovery happens when it is observed that nature violates an accepted scientific paradigm. That is to say, when the expectations of a paradigm no longer match nature,...
TRANSPARENT TIME
Time is what roots us in our humanity. Architecture controls and modulates the sequence of experience. To have a sequence, time must elapse. Humans have a fundamental need to understand their place in time. ...
THE ELECTROMAGNET AND THE GREEK REVIVAL
Think of a Greek Revival house as a scientific experiment. Difficult if next to impossible? Then let’s compare a Greek Revival to an electromagnet to see if this becomes clearer. ELECTROMAGNET AS PARADIGM...
PUZZLES AND PROBLEMS
Science is devoted to puzzle solving, not problem solving. We are conditioned to think of science as solving enormously complex problems. We romanticize about Salk or Madame Curie heroically making life better for all...
TANGLED UP IN ART
I saw my Transparent Drawings on a gallery wall. There they were, nicely framed and lit. And all around them were the artworks of artists. I am very happy to have my drawings on...
GROWTH MINDSET
I am amazed by what gets published as a book. For whatever reason, I picked up Mindset by Carol S. Dweck. This is a book that you can read in about an hour, as...
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...
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...
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