Formnication noun 1. the imparting or exchanging of information between forms 2. a process by which one form is modified by another one“This is the result of the formnication of the cylinder and the gable box.”
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10Feb
2024
THE PROCESS IS THE MASSAGE
2024
“What is needed is a process approach: each visual representation should be linked with its context of production.” Pauwels.
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2Aug
2023
BRAIN DUMP
2023
I’ve been wanting to put together a page like this for awhile. I have assembled sequential pages from a sketchbook, to see if my brain dump gives insight. The date range is from 7 June 23, when I was in Toronto, to 23 June. Longtime readers know that I draw each morning. The vast majority […]
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25Jun
2023
GIFT SHOP
2023
I will draw a Transparent Drawing for you. The gift shop is now open. I know, I know. After all of these years, I am actually stooping so low as to offer to do a drawing for you, for money. Finally, there is an economic component to these pages. A few of you have written […]
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6Feb
2023
NOTHING BUT FORMS
2023
Over the course of your daily life, you do nothing but manipulate and engage with forms. Your computer, toothbrush, automobile, pasta pot, and hopefully the pencil that you draw with are a sampling of these forms. When I glance up from where I am working, which is in my kitchen, this is a snapshot […]
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10Sep
2022
HAPTIC CURIOSITY
2022
We manipulate forms with our hands automatically, without thinking about it. A large amount of this haptic manipulation, as well as our bodily locomotion, takes place so that the hidden may be revealed. We are naturally curious. This typically involves:-opening-uncovering-taking apart-turning over-removing one form that is in front of another form-rotation-etc. This is of […]
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15Mar
2022
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
2022
What is it? What is the narrative? That is a joking question that I get from those nearest to me when looking at my latest drawing. And my joking response is, I have no idea. You see a form on the ground and you don’t know what it is. So you bend down, and then […]
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1Jan
2022
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE MAD
2022
There is one thing about Transparent Drawing that irritates people the most, and it is my use of the phrase, “smear around opaque blobs of paint.” As I make clear in the book, I’m not the first to decry the fallacy of Representational Spacetime. In fact, in the book, I let others, from Plato on, […]
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8Sep
2021
A BUILDING, BY REQUEST
2021
Why am I not drawing more buildings, like I used to do? Two readers recently asked this question. The drawing below is an attempt to get back to buildings. It is of Hagia Sophia, and done in charcoal stick applied to wet paper. And they are right, I have gotten off on a trajectory of […]
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28Jun
2021
YOUR DRAWING IS A HAMMER
2021
Our drawings are hammers. A hammer is a tool. Think of a hammer: is there anything that you don’t understand about it? If I asked you to draw a hammer, you would do it without any hesitation. But if I asked you to draw the Mona Lisa, you would hesitate. To help expand this understanding, […]
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