FORMNICATION
Formnication noun 1. the imparting or exchanging of information between forms2. a process by which one form is modified by another one“This is the result of the formnication of the cylinder...
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THE PROCESS IS THE MASSAGE
“What is needed is a process approach: each visual representation should be linked with its context of production.” Pauwels.
BRAIN DUMP
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...
NOTHING BUT FORMS
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...
HAPTIC CURIOSITY
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...
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
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...
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE MAD
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...
A BUILDING, BY REQUEST
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,...
YOUR DRAWING IS A HAMMER
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...
THE MATHEMATICAL VILLA SAVOYS
Villa Savoye has been a favorite in these pages. We now go farther afield with these Mathematical Villa Savoys. In essence, we take visualized mathematical systems, apply the rules to the building, and see...
DREAM IMAGE
Let’s add a new source image to what we draw from: Dream Image. It is almost shocking to me to realize that I now dream in transparent forms. Possibly the armchair psychologists amongst you...
KNOWLEDGE STATE
What is your knowledge state? We live in a time where knowledge is now downloadable. Enter any question into Search, and multiple lingual answers are immediately returned. Enter any image into Search, and multiple...
CORB: PAINTER OF SHAPES
How could Le Corbusier have been content to be a painter of shapes? As we have seen in previous pages, Corb considered himself a painter first, and an architect second. And his paintings are...
LEONARDO’S INFINITE IMAGES
Leonardo da Vinci: “every opaque body fills the surrounding air with infinite images, by which infinite pyramids diffused in the air present this body all in all and in every part.” A II, 6v....
SPACETIME ANALYSIS – 2
It has been awhile since we did a Spacetime Analysis. So I thought it would be fun to take a drawing that I like to see what sort of spacetime knowledge can be learned. ...
RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY
Riemannian geometry is a branch of mathematics that studies curves in three dimensional Euclidean space. I was interested in the image that I found below, which then resulted in my transparent drawing above. Categorize...
HILBERT SPACE 2
While we are on the subject of Hilbert Space, another drawing. (Our introduction to Hilbert Space is at the previous page.) In my research into this mathematical construct, I came across the image below,...
HILBERT SPACE
How many dimensions can we draw in? If we are within Hilbert Space, then the number of dimensions is infinite. David Hilbert was a great mathematician working in the early part of the 1900s. ...
HOUSE DRESS
All of this drawing of Kawakubo’s garments got me thinking about form and space. Form as in something interesting and unique to look at. Space as a volume for a human. One of the...
ALL THE DESIGN DISCIPLINES
Transparent Drawing is for all the design disciplines. Industrial Design? We have touched on it at the page Industrial Designers Do It Better. And then recently, I covered the Olivetti Valentine typewriter: see Sotsass...
FORM GENERATION – AN EXAMPLE
Modernist paintings can be great form generators. Two months ago, we questioned why the iconic modernist painters were content to manipulate two dimensional forms on a two dimensional picture plane. See the page Modernist...
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