What a beautiful story!
On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Spike Joyce <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello Patty,
>
> I am an artist, (not a designer or architect) and my area is the human
> figure - just to place myself in the context of this.
>
> An idea, to a finished artwork.
>
> Not intending to be specifically awkward but, isn't this the crux of
> drawing? We have an initial intention to draw; we get our materials read, we
> place ourselves, we look. All with the idea of doing something.
>
> Then we begin. Isn't this the thought begun. The actuality of drawing being,
> for me, the visual/physical manifestation of thought. We are confined by the
> parameters of the sheet of paper, the area; but this is our infinite space
> within which we can play, push, regress, explode, cut, shape, define etc.
>
> I do not have expectations of a visual product before I start, I simply
> allow the drawing to begin and tangentially 'feel' for it.
>
> For me, Kant said something along the lines of the aesthetic experience was
> a feeling of harmony as though a cognitive reason had just occurred although
> it was not a cognitive act; this is apt. I work/think through a drawing and
> it is either 'right' or 'wrong' until it reaches a harmony where I feel 'it'
> looks back on me. 'It' has a presence, or a credence I suppose, in which
> 'it' feels complete. Sometimes this can be a matter of seconds, or minutes,
> sometimes hours and days, weeks!
>
> The drawing (product and act) is a response to an event, the information
> therein depends upon being open and receptive to not only, physicality
> (weight, foreshortening) and light but also persona (self and other) and the
> history of non verbal conversation between the two.
>
> A personal note; I was drawing my wife when she was pregnant with out second
> child. After the drawing was finished - and by that I mean I stopped,
> stepped back from the easel and felt that 'it was there'. I realised the
> drawing had this extreme and massive tension in the legs, I stupidly
> mentioned this in a 'Oh look!' way and received a 'Durrr!! Yes!!!
> Pregnant!!' response. What I hadn't visually or cognitively realised before
> the drawing began, was picked up during the process. My 'drawing/thought'
> process had responded to a value my 'verbal/rational' had not. This is
> fundamental to me as the difference between drawing (we think through and
> are open to) and illustration (where we have one thing which we need to
> cover/get).
>
> Hope that's OK :)
>
> All the best, Spike.
>
>> Date: Fri, 1 Jun 2012 07:24:23 +0800
>> From: [log in to unmask]
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>> Subject: Idea to finished artwork
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>
>>
>> Hello researchers,
>>
>> I am giving a lecture on Tuesday at Beijing Normal University on how an
>> artist goes from an idea to a finished artwork.
>>
>> What are your thoughts about this? What is your process, from your mind to
>> finished artwork? What part does drawing play, not so much theoretically,
>> but the steps that you take to initiate the drawings, how are the drawings
>> actually used to process information or respond to it?
>>
>> Thank you!!
>>
>> Patty
>> www.pattyhudak.com
>> +86 13910955367
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