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FABRICATED TRUTH

Yoko Ono, we are told, did the following: “…she invoked the concept of ‘fabricated truth,’ meaning that the stuff we make up in our heads…is as much our reality as the chair we are...

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LIMA MODERNISM

When I travel, I love to generate a form from the photos that I took the day before.  I am currently in Lima, which is turning out to be a modernist paradise.  Here in...

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ALL WE WANT IS UNITY

All we want is holistic unity.  Everything that we are striving for is aimed toward unity and peace.  This search underlies nearly any book I pick up.  To name a few: –Arnheim  “A thoughtful...

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PEOPLE

Do I draw people? To ask this another way, do I use people as Source Images for Form Generation? This question was put to me recently, as can be seen in the comments. And,...

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RONCHAMP PROVENANCE

Robin Evans, in The Projective Cast, offers an interesting history of Corb’s design of Ronchamp Chapel.  These pages have called for, time and again, the revelation of how our culturally iconic designs were generated. ...

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WOVEN DRAWING

What is woven drawing?  This is where you draw the form as if it is woven.  Typically, a weaving is a matrix of linear elements that, by overlapping each other as they cross, form...

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FIRE PHONE

Amazon introduced their new Fire Phone. A technology perk that tries to distinguish the Fire from any other phone is what Amazon calls “dynamic perspective.” The cameras on the device tracks the position that...

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TRAVEL

I will be away for about 10 days traveling.  I fully expect to employ Transparent Drawing for the famous iconographic buildings that I will see.  While I realize that there are apps that let...