BELIEVE IN EVERYTHING

BK14-073 TRANSPARENT DRAWING

“You…must believe in everything, mostly in the impossible. Don’t ever forget that by your intuitive foresight you will find solutions to problems that seems impossible today, but will be common place in the next generation.”

This quote is from Paul Grillo’s book, Form Function and Design, on page 4.

I can’t help but apply this great thought to Transparent Drawing. There are two key words, “everything” and “impossible.”

Well, of course I like the word everything. That’s what this is about, drawing everything. Belief in everything that you draw. Belief that you can draw everything. Belief that it is your obligation to draw everything. Belief that if you don’t draw everything, you are content to sweep what you can’t see under the rug. Maybe what this is really about is Belief.

And then of course I am attracted to the word impossible. Some would say that it is impossible to draw everything. But when you do draw everything, entire new worlds of possibility are opened to you. When you see and draw everything, what is impossible is reduced significantly. Because you can see everything, forms that you thought were impossible now are absolutely possible. Transparency allows a previously unimagined form resolution.

Nothing is impossible because everything is possible. Believe in everythIng.

As an aside, I took out the words “as an artist” in the above passage. Problem solvers are not artists. And I believe that Mr. Grillo only used the word artist because that is how he was taught to believe. It was a culturally appropriate word at that time.

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