SCHIZOPHRENIC DRAWING
“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...
Monthly Archive: April 2015
TRANSPARENT CONTOUR DRAWING
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...
TRANSPARENT WEAVING
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...
WHAT A THOUGHT LOOKS LIKE
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...
ASSOCIATIVE CONFIDENCE
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...
RANDOM MODERNIST BUILDING
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...
ANOTHER VIEW ON ART
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...
CONVERSATION FORMS
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...
RELATIVITY
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...
OPPOSITE THINKING
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...
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