An image found on the web. A few heroic lines on the paper. A quick wash or two. A resolved, unique and authentic form. That really is at the heart of Transparent Drawing. A Kawakubo design will get you there. When I found this image, I mapped the forms of the dress over the gable […]
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27Nov
2017
THE SECRET PHOTOGRAPHER
2017
That should never be part of the title of a book about Le Corbusier. But nevertheless, there it is. The full title, Le Corbusier, The Secret Photographer, was published in 2013. In 2012 at the public library in La Chaux-de-Fonds, thousands of Corb’s photographs were discovered. One revelation of the find is that Corb took […]
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22Nov
2017
THE ORGANISM AND THE OBJECT
2017
The basis of all architecture is drawing. “Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to place things and to place oneslf.” p150. Architecture is for humans. “To quote Damasio again: ‘…conscious minds arise from establishing a relationship between the […]
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19Nov
2017
DIGITAL LOVE AFFAIR
2017
David Sax, in their New York Times article titled, Our Love Affair with Digital is Over, writes: “Though a page of paper is limited by its physical size and the permanence of the ink that marks it, there is a powerful efficiency in that simplicity. The person holding the pen above that notebook page is […]
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16Nov
2017
ONE LINE ONE WASH
2017
I think I have achieved enlightenment. My drawing was done with one wash, and one line. The pencil went once to the paper and drew the line. The brush went once to the paper and moved the wash. At the end of the previous page, I asked the question whether a one wash drawing would […]
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13Nov
2017
TWO WASH
2017
And now for something completely different. What are the minimum number of washes that you can use and still evoke space and enclosure? I set off in this new direction as the result of having an urge to show infinite space on the drawing I was starting. I really have no idea what that even […]
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9Nov
2017
DRAW FOR TRUTH
2017
We draw what is right, not what seems right. We draw for truth. Panofsky tells us that there were three components of subjectivity which were codified in the Renaissance representational mindset: subjective emotions, foreshortening, and concern for the viewer. “These three factors of variation have one thing in common: they all presuppose the artistic recognition […]
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6Nov
2017
KNOWLEDGE AND DATA
2017
Tom Gruber is head of advanced development for Siri at Apple. He has been at the vanguard of AI (Artificial Intelligence) from the very first. And he has specifically been interested in speech recognition by computers. His work in the early 1970s established what is called the Hearsay project, which essentially is Siri in embryonic […]
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2Nov
2017
REPRESENTATION AND WESTERN CONQUEST
2017
The perspective, as it blossomed forth in the Renaissance, worked with newfound rational thinking. Suddenly the world could be explained with the idealized constructs of math, science, logic and the linear perspective. With those tools, the world suddenly could be understood and explained. And let’s not forget religion. These rational constructs brought theistic belief […]
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