Dear David
I agree with what you are saying as I too believe in 'connection' to what we are doing , where we are etc and its influence on how we are.
Learning to draw, practicing drawing and keeping drawing is about looking / seeing and constant learning and certinaly helps fine tune the senses to the place, where ever it is. So, the marks we observe which are phenomenonology, or which are environmental or from nature are noticed perhaps by those who draw regulalry more acutley and interpreted in different ways. Just as photographers work with composition and ''think'' with composition, a drawer interprets marks of the sort this conversation today has been about ?
best wishes leo
ps. I agree, giraffe, that is a pattern. My favourite confusing definition of a category of drawing is pattern versus texture.
Leo Duff
Faculty of Art,Design & Architecture
Kingston University
Knights Park
Kingston Upon Thames
Surrey KT1 2QJ
UK
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Leo, hi
I continue to 'evolve' the notion of 'phenomenological drawing'.
Terrible name, but I use it to indicate the way in which things draw
themselves; and then how we might observe and reflect upon, and maybe
influence, these marks. It is part of my practice as an ecological
artist and is something I develop in my Postgraduate Option, 'Drawing
on Life' - how are we, as humans connected to our environment (ground
and object / object and ground)?
All the best
David
On 21 Jul 2006, at 09:55, Duff, Leo wrote:
> I agree with your pupil, its a pretty tight and neat 'definition'.
>
> However, what about the more etheral or ephemeral ways of drawing.
> With these clear skies around where I live at present airplane jet
> trails make fabulous marks on the atmosphere (not entering a debate
> about global warming), marks on snow or on sand, and one of my
> favourites, shadows.
>
> I have in my office at Kingston an ever growing record of peoples
> works where they are pointedly attempting to 'Define Categories of
> Drawing'. if anyone is researching this subject I would be glad to
> share some of these with them .
>
> best wishes
>
> leo duff
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> Leo Duff
> Faculty of Art,Design & Architecture
> Kingston University
> Knights Park
> Kingston Upon Thames
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> Whatever makes a mark, on whatever takes a mark.
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> I think I will embroider that on a cushion.
> Rachel
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> On 21/7/06 8:38 am, "Rob Appleby" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hello all,
> Just thought I would share this with you all. An 11 year old pupil of
> mine managed to define drawing after about half an hour of thinking
> and discussing.
> She thinks it is .... Whatever makes a mark, on whatever takes a mark.
> The future looks bright!
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