“The mind is not held back by the surfaces of things. They are seen either as containers, or their inside appears simply as a homogeneous continuation of the outside” Good old Arnheim. There he goes again giving us exactly the language we need for a literal description of Transparent Drawing. In this passage, he goes […]
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27Apr
2015
TRANSPARENT CONTOUR DRAWING
2015
Certainly one of the most powerful tools with which to see is the contour drawing. I guess that is why authors such as Nicolaides in his The Natural Way To Draw essentially starts his iconic tome with contour drawing. See page 5. To make a contour drawing, you move your eye slowly along the features […]
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23Apr
2015
TRANSPARENT WEAVING
2015
We ran across the weaving of Ethel Stein at the Art Institute of Chicago last fall. She is a mater weaver who, at 96 years old, is only now coming into the recognition that her work deserves. She does her weavings on a drawloom, which allows her to control each warp thread separately. In this […]
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21Apr
2015
WHAT A THOUGHT LOOKS LIKE
2015
Bucky Fuller believed that the tetrahedron was the most efficient enclosure that humans can create in the Newtonian world. A tetrahedron has four points which then create enclosures with four sides. These four points in a tetrahedron creates a system. Fuller then extrapolated this tetrahedron system concept to thoughts. It was his reasoning that thoughts […]
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17Apr
2015
ASSOCIATIVE CONFIDENCE
2015
We typically categorize smart people based on their ability to recall facts. Our entire educational system is based upon this premise. My personal belief is that each of us has a more or less innate capacity for this recall. Nevertheless, much of what is awarded in society is based upon one’s factual recall abilities. Can […]
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15Apr
2015
RANDOM MODERNIST BUILDING
2015
Sometimes a building that you see stays in your imagination. This happened recently during a visit to Vancouver. While riding bicycles around the city, we happened to ride past this random modernist pavilion which was on the harbor. We have addressed the topic of slamming on the brakes when you see something that you like. […]
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13Apr
2015
ANOTHER VIEW ON ART
2015
Architecture is art and it cannot help but be anything but. These are the thoughts of Gieselmann and Ungers in their writing published in 1963. In these pages, we have been debating whether architecture is art, whether architects are artists, and the place of technology in the mix. In their words, “Architecture is partial creation. […]
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8Apr
2015
CONVERSATION FORMS
2015
The above drawing depicts something that I call Conversation Forms. The idea is that each of our thoughts, precepts, etc. can be summarized by a three dimensional polygonal form. This form would be established with the assistance of computer algorithms. Your thoughts or words would then assume a transparent three dimensional shape that you and […]
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6Apr
2015
RELATIVITY
2015
We live in curved spacetime. At least this is what the theory of relativity tells us. Space is curved by gravity. Therefore the space upon which we inhabit the earth is curved. It is not linear. Yet we operate as if our world is square and true. We draw straight lines in abstract space and […]
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2Apr
2015
OPPOSITE THINKING
2015
Let’s think for a moment about opposites. Certainly the manipulation of opposites is at the core of what we do. When we draw a line, there is a small part of the paper that contains dark graphite. The remainder of the page is white. So the mere first act is a basic version of the […]
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