Artists have been pushing back against ideological cultural imperatives since forever. An interesting example is three Chinese artists who called themselves the New Measurement Group. In an attempt to push back against cultural ideological...
Two pages ago, faithful reader Robert seems to suggest that my John Berger quote (STONES IN YOUR POCKET), is taken out of context. So I went back to the section that Berger’s stones in...
Let’s attack another binary, representation (or depiction) vs abstraction. The representation / abstraction binary has informed our thinking in these pages since the beginning. This was first broached on the page LETTER TO HELEN....
During a day trip to Sintra which is about an hour by train outside of Lisbon, we were walking hurriedly to catch the train. I was taken by this building. Yet there was no...
If we don’t see in pictures, then why do we think it is so important to draw pictures? Steen Eiler Rasmussen gives us the following thought: “Ordinarily we do not see a picture of...
John Berger, in the following passage, exhorts us to beware of the habitual gesture, the habitual line, and maybe all habits in general: “The lines of a sign are uniform and regular: the lines...
What shapes a plane? What is a plane? In our Transparent Drawings, we draw planes all the time. You might say that to draw an enclosed and resolved form, all we are drawing is...
“But Kelberman’s project is, in addition, a visual world-building that explicitly sidesteps not only the language of antiquity and classicism but also any suggestion of “artistic” image making. Her choices are brightly colored,...
A passage from John Berger’s Bento’s Sketchbook: “Where there are no words, knowledge comes through physical acts and through the space through which those acts are made; by permitting each act the space conferred...
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