WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

What is it?  What is the narrative?  That is a joking question that I get from those nearest to me when looking at my latest drawing.  And my joking response is, I have no idea.

You see a form on the ground and you don’t know what it is.  So you bend down, and then say, aha, it is the shell of a snail.  In our culture, you have to be able to say, “that’s the shell of a snail” in order to understand it. 

When we have difficulty putting strings of lingual symbols to the form that we see, we are uncomfortable.  We are mystified.  The lingual threshold is what fundamentally divides “what we know” from “what we don’t know.”  Our cultural conditioning mandates that we cannot perceive the form simply as a pure fantastic geometry.  

Another way to say this is, the form is representational when we can verbally describe what it is.  And when we can’t, then the form is abstract, which indicates that it is beyond meaning.

The question that all of this raises is, do the forms that we generate with Transparent Drawing require a narrative?  Or, to ask this another way, does a pure holistic form admit a narrative?

The answer is no.  We don’t require a narrative, nor do we want one.  Our forms simply are.  They exist in a pure state.  They are pure form.  They are derived from pure geometry.  And they were generated in a state of pure geometry.  We do not require a literal narrative, which would only confuse things anyway.  

Look at the drawing above.  Can you generate a narrative from it?  Do you need to generate a narrative to understand it?  No and no.  It is a holistic form, which makes it a form that we knowledge.   

I ask you to imagine a world in which knowledge is solely visual.  When we look out into the world around us, all we see are forms.  And we do not need strings of lingual symbols to knowledge these forms.  We see, and therefore perceive, holistic geometry, with our entire bodies.  A significant component of this is that we draw our forms, transparently.  This is our pathway to knowledge, and it has nothing to do with narrative.