STILL AND MOVING
Humans produce still images (paintings, photographs, etc) and moving images (films, videos, slide displays, etc.). There are no still images in human visual perception: the area of light that is focused on your retina...
Tagged: REPRESENTATIONAL SPACETIME
YOU SEE SHAPE
I happened upon course planning material for early grade teachers. These sources use the terms 2D Shapes, and 3D Shapes. They never use the term form. Shapes are not Forms. So let’s say...
EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS
“Design is everybody’s business because we live in it, we eat in it, we pray and play in it. And still the appreciation of design, good or bad, is considered as the privilege of...
THE TECHNOLOGY OF A PEN AND A PIECE OF PAPER
All over the news, pundits are covering the advance of AI chatbots such as ChatGPT, etc. Most of them bemoan this new technological incursion. The New York Time’s coverage seemed to be slightly unique. ...
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...
DRAWING MATERIALITY 5
This is our 5th installment of Drawing Materiality. Because we are 100% analogue, when we draw, we are celebrating our humanity. Make material marks. As any perusal of my Transparent Drawings will...
NEGATIVE SPACE
Negative space. Now that is a stupid art term. What does that really mean? I don’t think anyone really knows. Negative space is just a cultural artifact that those who are aesthetically woke, accept...
STEINER’S FORM DRAWING
Rudolph Steiner, who generated the Waldorf School in 1919, was a firm believer in what he called form drawing. As faithful readers know, these pages have advocated the drawing of holistic form since day...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING ON ARCH DAILY
Arch Daily just ran a very nice piece titled Transparent Drawings, Visualizing Architecture Anew. Per many sources, Arch Daily is the most visited architecture website on the planet. I didn’t realize this...
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...
LIGHT FROM WITHIN
Where does the light come from? We light from within. Many pages ago, we eliminated the confusion of shadows. Our transparent forms, existing as possible experiences, do not cast shadows. And the primary reason...
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...
THE ARGUMENT OVER NATURAL FORMS
One of the fundamental precepts of Western art over the eons is that art copies nature. And by nature, I mean any natural form that we knowledge with our senses, from outside the body....
TRANSCENTAL FORM
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? ...
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,...
DIAGRAM VS. REPRESENTATION
A diagram is a drawing that explains how something works. The antonym of diagram is representational. Diagram and Representation. With these two words, we arrive at the heart of the problem. I find it...
DECOLONIZE YOUR MIND
This is a time of profound cultural change. We are coming to grips with our endemic societal repressive and exclusionary practices. Race is one. Art is another. Decolonize your mind. Our adulation of the...
MIX UP YOUR SPACETIMES!
Don’t be shy to mix spacetimes. Representational Spacetime has such a strong hold on us that you almost have to force yourself to draw in different holistic projections. All you have to do is...
THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING
Ruskin’s The Elements of Drawing has been in the cannon for decades. I only became aware of it a couple of months ago. As expected, the book’s orientation supports Representational Spacetime: the entire point...
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....
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