Real, live, transparent drawings will be on display at The Smithy, an art gallery in Cooperstown. My drawings are part of a larger show with various artists, titled Interior Spaces. As Janet Erway, Executive Director, explained to me, Transparent Drawings are appropriate for this show given the spatial and architectural theme. This will be the […]
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27Jul
2016
THE VISUALIZATION OF SCIENCE
2016
Of the most interesting tangents of these pages is the visualization that is at the core of science. When you start a project like Transparent Drawing, you don’t know all of the tangents that will be generated. I guess the tangents are a signal that the project is worthwhile. Still, it has been a revelation […]
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25Jul
2016
BACKGROUNDS
2016
Putting a background tone on drawings is a great thing. A background can serve as a contrast to the content of a drawing. When you fill the entire page with a tone, the graphic impact becomes very strong. The effect becomes more like photograph, with all of that attendant impact, contrast and apparent realism. But […]
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22Jul
2016
SCIENTIFIC CREATIVE URGE
2016
Science is driven by the creative urge. This may seem antithetical. Our conventional understanding of science and it’s methods revolves typically around understanding. Galileo, with his telescope, looked to the heavens. And with his telescope, he understood that the moon was not a platonic sphere, but indeed it had imperfect mountains and craters. Niels Bohr […]
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20Jul
2016
YOUR CAMERA IN MOMA
2016
Patti Smith, in her book Just Kids, gives us a glimpse into her early artistic methods. Before we go on, Just Kids is a fantastic and intimate look into NYC during the late 60’s and early 70’s. When I lived in the City, I never had the guts to live my art like she did; […]
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18Jul
2016
TRANSPARENT DRAWING MANIFESTO
2016
We launch this manifesto of tumbling and incendiary sight, this manifesto through which today we set up Transparent Drawing, because we want to deliver problem solvers from their gangrene of representation, perspective construction, and realism. The dark night of representation has been pierced. Designers toiling beneath the bronze mosque light, we work assiduously toward ever […]
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15Jul
2016
TRANSPARENT THINKER
2016
Laslo Maholy-Nagy was a transparent thinker. This revelation came thru loud and clear at the current Guggenheim show, Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, in NYC. When you think of Maholy-Nagy, you generally think of Constructivist work. We have, for example, covered the constructivist work of El Lissitsky at this page. The great thing about Maholy-Nagy is that […]
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13Jul
2016
THE SHELLS WE LIVE IN
2016
We have adopted the word enclosure to describe the objects that we design and draw. Let’s substitute shell for enclosure and see if we derive any further understanding. That is to say, imagine any building, or any man made object as a shell. What are the fundamentals of a shell? First, the concept of shell […]
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11Jul
2016
DESIGN TECHNIQUE
2016
What is the difference between design technique and technique to design? So much of what we do is generated by a technique to design. We focus on how-to. Our education is focused, for example, on how-to construct a representative perspective. Or we are instructed how-to make an axonometric projection on our paper. This how-to approach […]
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8Jul
2016
DOES THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD EXIST?
2016
Is there a scientific method? This is the question that James Blachowicz asks in their New York Times article. In these pages, we have been questioning the scientific method. For background, see SCIENTIFIC METHOD and THE TOOL WE CALL DRAWING. Blachowicz proceeds to differentiate between the definition of a word and the experience of the […]
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