PROCESS AS DRAWING
Drawing is the recording of the intimate gestures of a body. All drawing correlates our movements with our mental clarity. As such drawing provides the one path to spiritual truth about life. It takes...
Tagged: ANALOGUE DRAWING
THE DESIGN SKETCHBOOK
At the site titled The Design Sketchbook, the author has provided Tip 172. And it it titled “How to draw 3D volumes. It’s all about seeing things in transparency.” The Design Sketchbook looks like...
THE TRAJECTORY OF ART
The entire trajectory of modernism, it turns out, is nothing more than revealing what cannot be seen. “One of the greatest innovations in twentieth-century drawings involves the degree to which they make visible things...
PAPER TRANSPARENCY
What if you draw on transparent medium? Decades ago, I used to make drawings on plexiglass. The drawing at the top of this page is an example. I used a Rapidograph ink pen, and...
DRAWING NOT DRAWING
There are four requirements for a drawing, an analogue drawing. Pencil. Paper. Hand. Brain. If any of these items are missing, it is not a drawing. If to make your image, you input digitally,...
ANALOGUE DRAWING
So what do we mean by analogue drawing? These pages use this term frequently. What are the minimum requirements of analogue drawing? Physicality. Physical gesture. Bodily act. Drawing must provide and maintain a direct,...
SET YOURSELF UP FOR FAILURE
In many instances, I never know how my drawing is going to turn out. That’s because I try to incorporate new means and methods whenever I have a new idea. We have talked about...
PERCEPTION AND IMAGINATION
Is there a difference between perception and imagination? That is to ask, is the feeling of perception and the feeling of imagination similar? Let’s think for a moment about the everyday act of perception. ...
NEW MEASUREMENT GROUP
Artists have been pushing back against ideological cultural imperatives since forever. An interesting example is three Chinese artists who called themselves the New Measurement Group. In an attempt to push back against cultural ideological...
DEPICTACTION
Let’s attack another binary, representation (or depiction) vs abstraction. The representation / abstraction binary has informed our thinking in these pages since the beginning. This was first broached on the page LETTER TO HELEN....
TRAVEL BUILDING 1
During a day trip to Sintra which is about an hour by train outside of Lisbon, we were walking hurriedly to catch the train. I was taken by this building. Yet there was no...
INFINITELY EXTENSIVE
John Berger, in the following passage, exhorts us to beware of the habitual gesture, the habitual line, and maybe all habits in general: “The lines of a sign are uniform and regular: the lines...
I’M ON A PLANE
What shapes a plane? What is a plane? In our Transparent Drawings, we draw planes all the time. You might say that to draw an enclosed and resolved form, all we are drawing is...
ARTISTIC SIDESTEP
“But Kelberman’s project is, in addition, a visual world-building that explicitly sidesteps not only the language of antiquity and classicism but also any suggestion of “artistic” image making. Her choices are brightly colored,...
WHERE THE NO WORDS ARE
A passage from John Berger’s Bento’s Sketchbook: “Where there are no words, knowledge comes through physical acts and through the space through which those acts are made; by permitting each act the space conferred...
SCIENTIFIC ICONS
Mike makes a really good point. In his reply to The Pencil Marks On The Paper, he states that engineering graphs give a more complete and intuitive understanding than the mathematical characters which produce...
THE END OF DESIGN
You have an idea. You draw the idea on your paper. Then you describe the idea in words. That description, using words, makes your concept static. Think about it. There you are, happily drawing...
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDING IN THE WORLD 1
We were hungry for lunch. Trip Advisor said there was an interesting spot not too far from where we were. After making our way thru the streets of Lisbon, a small courtyard opened before...
THE PENCIL MARKS ON THE PAPER
Imagine that you have a pencil and a piece of paper. You proceed to make a few marks with your pencil on your paper. Now stop and look what you have done. You have...
YEAR IN REVIEW
How do you generate new forms? More to the point, can there be a method which can be used to for novel form and enclosure generation? This question is one of the central points...
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