ROTHKO’S LIGHT BAND
I can’t help it now. Whatever artwork I look at, I always think, why didn’t they do that transparently? It would have been so much more interesting. I’ve said this before many times. So,...
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TRANSPARENT LANDSCAPE
Can we learn from a Renaissance landscape painting? The drawing above tries to answer that question. The painting in question is titled The Harvesters and it is by Pieter Brugel the Elder, done in...
THE UNVISIBLE
Suzuki tells us that the foundation of Zen Buddhism is the concept of the unconscious. “Spatially, it is called ‘formless’, against all that can be subsumed under form; temporarily, it is ‘non-abiding’, as it...
FOUNDATION OF MINDFULNESS
I really like the way Buddhist thought applies to Transparent Drawing. In the Seven Factors of Awakening, Buddhism has primary goals of integration, holism, complete understanding, renunciation of petty facets of the real world,...
PERCEPTION AND IMAGINATION
Is there a difference between perception and imagination? That is to ask, is the feeling of perception and the feeling of imagination similar? Let’s think for a moment about the everyday act of perception. ...
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...
REGRESSION TO THE MEAN
I think that if I keep finding these psychologically oriented topics, I will need to create another category to this blog. I am finding that a psychological understanding of the client’s process something that...
FIGURE GROUND, A TRANSPARENT DEFINITION
Webster’s defines figure ground as follows: a property of perception in which there is a tendency to see parts of a visual field as solid, well-defined objects standing out against a less distinct background....
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