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...
Category: HISTORY
DRAWING MACHINES
Since the beginning, machines have been developed with the goal of reducing subjective human interpretation. This thought has been with us since the 17th century, and has basically been unchanged into today. And of...
SCIENTIFIC MODERNISM
This is how scientific discovery happens. Scientific discovery happens when it is observed that nature violates an accepted scientific paradigm. That is to say, when the expectations of a paradigm no longer match nature,...
TRANSPARENT TIME
Time is what roots us in our humanity. Architecture controls and modulates the sequence of experience. To have a sequence, time must elapse. Humans have a fundamental need to understand their place in time. ...
THE VISUALIZATION OF SCIENCE
Of the most interesting tangents of these pages is the visualization that is at the core of science. When you start a project like Transparent Drawing, you don’t know all of the tangents that...
THE SHELLS WE LIVE IN
We have adopted the word enclosure to describe the objects that we design and draw. Let’s substitute shell for enclosure and see if we derive any further understanding. That is to say, imagine any...
DOES THE SCIENTIFIC METHOD EXIST?
Is there a scientific method? This is the question that James Blachowicz asks in their New York Times article. In these pages, we have been questioning the scientific method. For background, see SCIENTIFIC METHOD...
IMAGINATION AND MEMORY
The photographs that we take and the drawings that we make are a form of memory. They are a form of witnessing and seeing. The things that we see; a form, a detail, a...
TRANSCEND CUBISM
I had never heard of Stuart Davis. That is, until Schjaldahl’s 20 June New Yorker article made the introduction. Davis was an early modernist painter who completely believed in his artistic mission. He also...
HEY BRUNELLESCHI!
Has the eye become a fixed, monocular construct? Is the eye truly locked into the Renaissance perspective dimensional grids? Of course not. We move our bodies thru our world on a daily basis. If...
INFINITE PERSPECTIVES
The simultaneous multiple viewpoints represented by Cubism informs our work. For example, this statement from an early French cubist painter in 1912 essentially describes the transparent drawing method; “I see and represent an object,...
BODILESS OBSERVER
The arc of technology is detachment. Each technological breakthrough has come at the expense of our bodily involvement with the world. The more advanced the technology, the greater our physical removal. Name any technological...
GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX
Grammar and syntax are the problem. A few pages ago, we outlined the trajectory of human communication, starting with the oral tradition, moving thru the pictorial tradition, and we left off when we started...
WRITING IS DRAWING
In the beginning, it was oral. The vessel of cultural knowledge, in the beginning, was oracular; humans communicating with each other with sounds that come from their mouths. The traditions and history of cultures...
PLATO ON PERSPECTIVE
In The Republic, it is nice to hear that Plato was skeptical of the linear perspective. Writing in 380 BC, he states in Book X: “Thus (through perspective) every sort of confusion is revealed...
KNOWLEDGE DRAWING
Drawings used to be vessels of knowledge. Yet the trajectory of vision has led to detachment. Instead of a body centered experience, the distancing, as we have seen, promotes the nihilistic attitude that pervades...
SUPERFICIAL IMAGES
Heidegger, Foucault and Derrida have all argued that the dominance of vision in our culture has only served to separate ourselves from the world. While I don’t agree with this premise, I do understand...
SPECTATOR THEORY AND JOHN DEWEY
We are not spectators. We are dynamic beings. We move around. We engage with the world in three dimensions. Yet our culture conditions us to be spectators. Spectator theory insists that the world is...
OSMOTIC DRAWING
Our critique of the one point perspective, it turns out, has had many supporting voices over the centuries. One result is osmotic drawing. Maurice Merlaeau-Ponty was intensely critical of the ‘Cartesian perspectivalist scopic regime’. ...
ALL ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
Reading in Bachelard, it was gratifying to hear him contemplate memory, space and time. He posits the theory that memory is free of time. That is to say, our memories are devoid of a...
THE LIVING IS FUZZY
Reading more from the Poetics of Space, “His task is that of proceeding phenominologically to images that have not been experienced, and which life does not prepare, but which the poet creates; of living...
SEEING IS KNOWLEDGE
There are so many books sources stacked up on my desk, I have no idea how I will ever get thru them all. And I am starting to get concerned that I am going...
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