BUM WAD
Tony Costello, an architecture professor of mine, always used to use the term bum wad. He was referring to what people normally call trace paper. Or overlay sketch paper. Any of the architects reading...
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OPPENHEIMER
Have you ever stopped to think what spatial and form processing facilities you are born with? “Typology is a study of those relationships that do not have to do with measure and size, but...
FRANCIS BACON 2
Francis Bacon: “Tell me, who today has been able to record anything that comes across to us as a fact without causing deep injury to the image?” Sebastian Smee, on page 54 of The...
EXACT OBSERVATIONS
Ellsworth Kelly on his plant drawings: “They are exact observations…Nothing is changed or added: no shading, no surface marking. They are not an approximation of the thing seen nor are they a personal expression...
WHERE THE NO WORDS ARE
A passage from John Berger’s Bento’s Sketchbook: “Where there are no words, knowledge comes through physical acts and through the space through which those acts are made; by permitting each act the space conferred...
DREAMS ARE FACTS
Dreams are facts. In analytic psychology, dreams are the elements of what is going on in a person’s unconscious. “Soon I realized that it was right to take the dreams in this way as...
VISUAL FACTS
A critical component of the creative conceptual process is when and how we retrieve our associations. As has been discussed earlier, our drawing makes direct deposits in our association database. When we draw, the...
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