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 sitting in. ‘I think it is possible to see the chair as it is,’ she explained. ‘But when you burn the […]
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8May
2022
LIMA MODERNISM
2022
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 the city, there is a wondrous array of absolutely stunning modernist pieces. All of these buildings are authentic. I was […]
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15Dec
2021
ALL WE WANT IS UNITY
2021
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 person cannot read these studies without admiring the active striving for unity…” –Kant “…the unity of this act [of drawing] is […]
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16Sep
2021
TRANSCENTAL FORM
2021
Kant, in his Critique of Pure Reason, is focused on what he calls pure, or transcendental form, and how it comes to be. Are the forms that we generate transcendental, and would Kant agree? I believe he would. With Transparent Drawing, we generate holistic form. Have you ever wondered where or what, exactly, these forms […]
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13Jul
2021
PEOPLE
2021
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, truthfully, I had never fully considered this preposition. So, thank you for your great suggestion. To get this underway, when I […]
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16Jan
2019
RONCHAMP PROVENANCE
2019
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. And Evans offers us just that. This is not the first time that we have looked at Ronchamp. In a nutshell, […]
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26Dec
2018
5 MINUTE TRANSPARENT DRAWING
2018
Only have a few minutes? No problem, you can still get a drawing in with the Five Minute Transparent Drawing mode. I accidently discovered this method of putting down a very bold and expressive line. And all you need is a water soluble fiber tip pen, I like the Pentel Arts Water Based Brush, […]
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17Dec
2018
WOVEN DRAWING
2018
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 and structure are created simultaneously. Weaving, of course, surrounds us, and has been with us since the Paleolithic Era. What we […]
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20Jun
2014
FIRE PHONE
2014
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 you are holding the phone and the position of your head. My understanding is that any change in this head / […]
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28Apr
2014
TRAVEL
2014
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 you post from the phone, is any of this that important that it can’t wait? On the same topic, this is […]
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