paul can you break it down - how you got to electricity?

surely the mind is the fundamental tool for drawing - but the mind does not constitute just electricity..?

I would like to suggest that drawing is an act of focusing one's consciousness/awareness onto a subject (external or internal) until one reaches some kind of understanding (i mean that in the most experiential sense).  When i draw something which has a physical visible existence, my mind follows its form, its shape and perhaps other aspects, and then i seem to reach a point where i go 'through' it, i can replicate it without having to 'look', (how do it put it) i 'understand' it.

if this makes any sense, i would like to follow by saying that this process also happens when i leave behind the mark-making, and am left only with the 'looking'.  if you focus your consciousness and hold it on a subject long enough, you reach that point.  the same can be done with an idea, an internal image, or a problem, or a word.

so,
Q. is 'drawing' an exercise in consciousness?

i hope this doesnt sound too new-agey...


so say drawing IS what happens in the mind, then does that make mark-making the communication of that original drawing?





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> Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2008 13:08:42 +0100
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> Subject: Re: DRAWING IS NOT ART
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> LOUISA - your first Q was my original question and your 2nd question is what i was getting at but you brilliantly nailed it into a sentence :)
> I will have to do some research before i answer you 2nd Q as that interest me, and i liek to think that yes Q 1 it can be considered a drawing - but i dont think to much on that like i said!
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> which brings us to
> MARYCLARE - great post thanks for that link, just shows you that no idea is 'original' and a delight that it saves me time and money to have to make it ! lol :)
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> RACHANDSPIKE....great too, thanks for that summary the first two paragrapghs great for me to know but i disagree with the carver and modeller story, nice example though.  Its just that when modelling sometimes you are not the master as you run into all sorts of problems that rule you like the knots in the wood! :)
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> MALCOLM nice 'tips' there too...liek the rope metaphor, i wonder what deleuze says all about this?
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> STEPHANIE - yes, people who do not draw are not - hehehe...no joking...it means that anything that feels draws - as a thought or process of information is a drawing.  hey that means that electricity is the fundamental drawing?....which means big bng a drawing and then the sound recorded just before big bang is a drawing...sound and electricity and space defines drawing, so any mark making we or anything does just tries to define that space - another tea break needed....have to go ;0)
> On Jan 6, 2008 12:49 PM, Louisa Martin 
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