ENTANGLEMENT
There is a new concept in science, and it is called entanglement. Objects, or forms, can only exist within a continuum of other forms. This means that there cannot exist simply one form,...
Tagged: FORM GENERATION
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...
STEP BY STEP
We teach ourselves. The role of instructors / professors / et. al. is to foment learning. You (YES YOU!) then have to do what is necessary for the assimilation of knowledge. This is my...
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...
REAL FORMS
The forms that we generate with Transparent Drawing are real forms. They are not abstract. They are not ideal. They are not actual.They are not schematic. Now, you might think that the five statements above amount to...
LE MODULOR POSSIBILITIES
Le Corbusier’s Le Modulor, is iconic. It is referenced in the history books as a milestone. We toss off references to it as if everyone knows how it works. But do you really know...
DRAWING MATERIALITY – TAPE SHIFT
The two drawings on this page, and the drawing a few pages ago, employ what I call Tape Shift (TS). TS is when you shift the location of pieces of tape around on your...
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...
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...
WORLD LEADERS NEED TO DRAW
That’s my answer. If it were up to me, I would say, yo, all of you! Stop it! You’re not playing nice! You world leaders need to draw! You need to sit down in...
DRAWING MATERIALITY 2 – THE STICKY SIDE
We started the category, Drawing Materiality, awhile ago. And there has not been much follow up. So, to correct that curatorial deficiency, let’s dive back in and see what we have. For this outing,...
ALL IN ALL IT’S JUST BRICKS IN THE WALL
While reading and annotating Norberg-Schulz’s Intentions in Architecture, I wrote “all in all it’s just bricks in the wall” three times in the margins. The book was all just words piled upon words. Tortuous...
ARCHITECTURAL ACTION
Mogwai, a post rock band, put out an album in 2001 titled Rock Action. I’ve always liked that title (the music is fun also), and as I was drawing recently, it occurred to me,...
BUILDINGS IN BUILDINGS OUT
If you use buildings as your Source Image, you likely will get a building as a result. At least this is what I have found. But maybe that is just my architectural genome kicking...
THE ARCHITECTURAL IMAGE
In the seven years that I have been working on Transparent Drawing, I have done everything in my power to include other transparent thinkers. The third chapter of my book does just that. ...
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? ...
DON’T ASSUME FORM
When you draw, don’t assume form. Don’t assume that you understand a holistic form unless you draw it entirely. Let’s say you want to draw a human head. In every how to draw book,...
WORK WITH YOUR HANDS
We work with our hands. We manipulate physical tools, pen, paper and the like, as we craft knowledge of form. Our primary sensory input is visual. We craft our drawings in the analogue. Our...
DOT TO DOT
Dot to Dot is a new Transparent Drawing Mode. And the steps are very simple:1. Knowledge any form on your paper.2. Where lines meet, deposit a heavy dot.3. Generate a new form by connecting...
BUILDINGS AS FORM GENERATOR
We now look at a new Transparent Drawing Mode, Buildings As Form Generator. In each drawing, whatever the mode, whatever the type, we end up with fresh, unique forms. We use various sources as...
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