I look at a lot of art when I am making my drawings. Artists that I have found inspirational are Amy Sillman, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, and Picasso, to name a few. I thought it might be helpful if I described my process to generate a drawing. To use Picasso as an example, I might […]
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27Jun
2016
TRANSCEND CUBISM
2016
I had never heard of Stuart Davis. That is, until Schjaldahl’s 20 June New Yorker article made the introduction. Davis was an early modernist painter who completely believed in his artistic mission. He also incorporated politics into his work, as he believed painting could change society. Like I said, he was a true believer. The […]
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24Jun
2016
GUINET FARMHOUSE
2016
Three views of an ordinary building. I was leafing thru Form Function and Design by Jacques Grillo. On page 108, he includes three views of an ordinary building. And two of the three views are from opposite sides of the building! I was stunned. One of the laments of these pages is the propensity of […]
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22Jun
2016
ORIGINS OF TRANSPARENT DRAWING
2016
This drawing is 35 years old. It seems that I started drawing transparently way before I started Transparent Drawing. I was looking thru old 35 mm slides the other day, and I came across drawings that I generated as part of my architectural thesis. And low and behold, these drawings are transparent. This was, of […]
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20Jun
2016
WRITTEN AGGRANDIZEMENT
2016
Fiction can be stranger than truth. A recent New Yorker is devoted to fiction. Ben Lerner, in their article, The Polish Rider, muses about art and literature. They bring a particular focus on those who write about art and those who review art. Lerner writes: “…these stories are really opportunities for the authors to assert […]
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17Jun
2016
ORDINARY GRAIN FACILITY
2016
We are away for a few days, so I thought a travel related post of an ordinary grain facility would be fun. While driving thru the hinterlands of Washington State some months ago, a grain silo complex caught my eye. It was rather ordinary. Slamming on the brakes of the rental car, I quickly hopped […]
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15Jun
2016
DESIGN MONEY
2016
Money. Money is the talisman of our self-regard. We carefully monitor the quantity as a way to shape our actions. It is a fundamental societal currency. It is a proxy for gauging societal achievement. What is the currency of design? Is there a type of design money? Is there a fundamental design currency? Emotion. The […]
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13Jun
2016
HEY BRUNELLESCHI!
2016
Has the eye become a fixed, monocular construct? Is the eye truly locked into the Renaissance perspective dimensional grids? Of course not. We move our bodies thru our world on a daily basis. If anything, the single, fixed, monocular viewpoint does not exist in our everyday world. We are constantly moving; complete stasis of the […]
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10Jun
2016
INFINITE PERSPECTIVES
2016
The simultaneous multiple viewpoints represented by Cubism informs our work. For example, this statement from an early French cubist painter in 1912 essentially describes the transparent drawing method; “I see and represent an object, for example a box or a table. I see it from one point of view. But if I hold the box […]
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8Jun
2016
BODILESS OBSERVER
2016
The arc of technology is detachment. Each technological breakthrough has come at the expense of our bodily involvement with the world. The more advanced the technology, the greater our physical removal. Name any technological breakthrough and it will increase our bodily detachment from the world. The spear enabled us to eat without wrestling an animal […]
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