TRAVEL ADVISORY
We will be traveling for the next two weeks. I have this fantasy of providing travel related transparent drawings while on the trip. Who knows if I will have the motivation to actually do...
Monthly Archive: August 2016
MUSEUM PROCEDURE
Everyone at a museum show has their phones out taking photos of the wonderful artwork. What you don’t see people doing is taking a photo of the name of the artwork. You need to...
DREAMS ARE FACTS
Dreams are facts. In analytic psychology, dreams are the elements of what is going on in a person’s unconscious. “Soon I realized that it was right to take the dreams in this way as...
DRAWING MACHINES
Since the beginning, machines have been developed with the goal of reducing subjective human interpretation. This thought has been with us since the 17th century, and has basically been unchanged into today. And of...
SCIENTIFIC MODERNISM
This is how scientific discovery happens. Scientific discovery happens when it is observed that nature violates an accepted scientific paradigm. That is to say, when the expectations of a paradigm no longer match nature,...
TRANSPARENT TIME
Time is what roots us in our humanity. Architecture controls and modulates the sequence of experience. To have a sequence, time must elapse. Humans have a fundamental need to understand their place in time. ...
THE ELECTROMAGNET AND THE GREEK REVIVAL
Think of a Greek Revival house as a scientific experiment. Difficult if next to impossible? Then let’s compare a Greek Revival to an electromagnet to see if this becomes clearer. ELECTROMAGNET AS PARADIGM...
PUZZLES AND PROBLEMS
Science is devoted to puzzle solving, not problem solving. We are conditioned to think of science as solving enormously complex problems. We romanticize about Salk or Madame Curie heroically making life better for all...
TANGLED UP IN ART
I saw my Transparent Drawings on a gallery wall. There they were, nicely framed and lit. And all around them were the artworks of artists. I am very happy to have my drawings on...
GROWTH MINDSET
I am amazed by what gets published as a book. For whatever reason, I picked up Mindset by Carol S. Dweck. This is a book that you can read in about an hour, as...
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