Hi Richard
Thanks for your reply. If possible I would love to see some examples.
I've just read your article for Tracey,
(www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ac/tracey/edu/hare.html)
'The act of sketching in learning ...: a total skill for complex expression'
.
I found it very useful and am interested in what you say about the role of
sketching in allowing us to carry out and externalise complex mental imaging
tasks and as a means to say the unsayable in an unsayable way, not merely a
linguistic shorthand but something different.
I've been wondering about the role of the physical drawing itself in a
drawing dialogue. How it makes visible, externalises, the risk and intimacy
of the unfolding connectedness between two people making a drawing together.
Trying to describe this in words would be cumbersome and the connection
would probably crumble from the effort of trying to describe it. The drawing
then stands as a testimony to that connectedness no matter how fleeting.
Who keeps the drawing is another question.
I may be trying to stretch this analogy too far but I'm grateful for your
descriptions.
all the best
Angela
To: "'Angela Rogers '" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 11:19 AM
Subject: RE: Drawing Dialogues
> Hello Angela
>
> I don't know how relevant my own experiences are but as a Landscape
> Architect I have often used drawing as a substitute for verbal
> communication. My own Burgeresk experiences have been on occassions in
> Norway and Zanzibar where drawing allowed some great dialogue in a social
> setting.
>
> I teach at Universities in Denmark and Sweden now and although most
students
> have some english our conversations are generally graphic based. When I
> began I couldn't speak or understand danish or swedesh and there were some
> very interesting episodes.
> It could be interesting for you see some of this- I guess it might happen
> with visiting design professional to schools in UK.
>
> Good luck with your application
>
> Richard
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Angela Rogers
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: 11/02/04 12:18
> Subject: Drawing Dialogues
>
> Hi colleagues I wonder if anyone can help?
>
> I have recently finished the Drawing as Process MA at Kingston and am
> embarking on a Drawing Dialogues initiative. I'm making a funding
> application for research to support the initiative, investigating
> dialogues where drawing is the language of communication. Such as John
> Berger's experience in a cafe in Istanbul where he spent an evening
> conversing with someone else, neither of them speaking each other's
> language, by drawing on table napkins. Or Raymond Carver's description
> of a blind man experiencing a drawing of a catherdral by feeling all
> over and round the edges of a piece of paper, then holding another man's
> hand whilst he drew.
>
> I'd be grateful for any information or examples of the following.
>
> Collaborative drawing activities that probably involve an artist and
> non-artists although any examples of a long term collaborative drawing
> relationship between two artists would be valuable.
>
> I am also interested in accounts of the experience of being drawn,
> especially by individuals who are not 'professional models', friends of
> the artist or part of the art world. I am curious about whether the kind
> of experience Frederick Franck describes when drawing people and objects
> is in any way reciprocated by those being drawn.
>
> Many thanks
> Angela Rogers
>
>
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