YOUR ACTS OF DESIGN
Your only concern should be to produce forms that are authentic and responsive. You can only be concerned with your acts of design. This is all you can do. You cannot be concerned with...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING
NOTHING BUT FORMS
Over the course of your daily life, you do nothing but manipulate and engage with forms. Your computer, toothbrush, automobile, pasta pot, and hopefully the pencil that you draw with are a sampling...
YOUR GEOMETRIC REPERTOIRE
If you are a designer, what do you do as design exercises? Athletes and musicians engage in strengthening exercises. If you are of the lingual bent, you develop sets of phonemes. As a...
WALL OF REPRESENTATION
You engage in processes of perception and visualization continually. You are in a continuous state of putting together a construct of the external world. Your visual input is continually changing, and you are continually...
LAW OF CLOSED FORM
We develop greater resonance for the forms we generate when we have a working knowledge of the geometry of closed form. We study, and thus utilize, external forms to yield basic principals of geometry....
GUEST CORRESPONDENT: MICHAEL BERRY
Hi Kurt, In the last few days I have revisited your “entanglement” post and read and researched scientific papers published on the ‘entanglement’ theory… a load of assumptions are revealed, built upon former assumptions,...
ENTANGLEMENT
There is a new concept in science, and it is called entanglement. Objects, or forms, can only exist within a continuum of other forms. This means that there cannot exist simply one form,...
DRAWING MATERIALITY 5
This is our 5th installment of Drawing Materiality. Because we are 100% analogue, when we draw, we are celebrating our humanity. Make material marks. As any perusal of my Transparent Drawings will...
OSKAR SCHLEMMER
Oskar Schlemmer was a German artist and choreographer, working right before WW II. He taught at the Bauhaus, and is known for his acclaimed work, The Triadic Ballet. (The music was by Hindemith!). I...
HAPTIC CURIOSITY
We manipulate forms with our hands automatically, without thinking about it. A large amount of this haptic manipulation, as well as our bodily locomotion, takes place so that the hidden may be revealed. We...
STEP BY STEP
We teach ourselves. The role of instructors / professors / et. al. is to foment learning. You (YES YOU!) then have to do what is necessary for the assimilation of knowledge. This is my...
NEGATIVE SPACE
Negative space. Now that is a stupid art term. What does that really mean? I don’t think anyone really knows. Negative space is just a cultural artifact that those who are aesthetically woke, accept...
FABRICATED TRUTH
Yoko Ono, we are told, did the following: “…she invoked the concept of ‘fabricated truth,’ meaning that the stuff we make up in our heads…is as much our reality as the chair we are...
REAL FORMS
The forms that we generate with Transparent Drawing are real forms. They are not abstract. They are not ideal. They are not actual.They are not schematic. Now, you might think that the five statements above amount to...
LE MODULOR POSSIBILITIES
Le Corbusier’s Le Modulor, is iconic. It is referenced in the history books as a milestone. We toss off references to it as if everyone knows how it works. But do you really know...
DRAWING MATERIALITY – TAPE SHIFT
The two drawings on this page, and the drawing a few pages ago, employ what I call Tape Shift (TS). TS is when you shift the location of pieces of tape around on your...
OPERATIONAL DRAWING
I happened across this site, called APK Concepts, which I want to share with you. I was looking for more information on Margaret Morris’ book, Notation of Movement, and this was in the...
LIMA MODERNISM
When I travel, I love to generate a form from the photos that I took the day before. I am currently in Lima, which is turning out to be a modernist paradise. Here in...
STEINER’S FORM DRAWING
Rudolph Steiner, who generated the Waldorf School in 1919, was a firm believer in what he called form drawing. As faithful readers know, these pages have advocated the drawing of holistic form since day...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING ON ARCH DAILY
Arch Daily just ran a very nice piece titled Transparent Drawings, Visualizing Architecture Anew. Per many sources, Arch Daily is the most visited architecture website on the planet. I didn’t realize this...
WRONG UNITY
Unification of the painting has been an important goal for great talents in the West. We laude paintings that seek spatial unification, unification of paint with subject, unification of paint with paint, a oneness...
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