Dear Jinan,
"Words make one think where as images makes one
see."
Please be wary of separating seeing/ drawing from thinking in this way!
Forthcoming 'Thinking Through Drawing' symposium:
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uthbank-london-7-8th-november/
Best,
Martin
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Cambridge School of Art
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On 19/10/2015 08:00, "Jinan K B" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>"The senses speak to the understanding: ²Poor understanding, from us
>you took the pieces of evidence and with them you want to throw us
>down? This down throwing will be your fall.²
> Democritus
>
>Dear Martin
>
>I think we should rephrase 'primacy of words over images' to either
>'primacy of left brain over right brain' or 'primacy of fragmented
>engagement over wholistic engagement' or 'primacy of mind over senses'
>to make issue clearer. Words make one think where as images makes one
>see. Seeing demands total participation of the being and not just the
>mind.
>That is why I said Nick Sousanis is missing the point. Experiencing a
>huge banyan tree or a tiny plant in real life is so very different
>from seeing their images, how much ever well drawn in a book. The
>immensity of the tree or the fragileness of the tiny plant can only be
>senses, felt and known. This impacts your whole being.
>Off course with in the western academia this could be a big step. I am
>saying one now needs to step outside the book and fall in to the lap
>of nature.
>
>Eduardo
>Hope you won't mind if i say you are missing the point when you say
>"there is not much doubt about that writing is a form of drawing".
>The point is what does writing does to you and what does drawing does
>to you. As I mentioned earlier drawing activates seeing instead of
>thinking.
>Also the theory dominance of vision is also another myth. It is the
>mind that begins to exert in literate cultures and not the eye.
>
>Literacy re configures the biological aspects of making sense of the
>world into psychological.
>
>Jinan
>
>
>On 18/10/2015, Eduardo corte-real <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi Jinan, Keith, Martin, Anthi,
>> There is not much doubt about that writing is a form of drawing. Tim
>>Ingold
>> in ³Lines: a Brief History² stressed this. The linearity underlying
>>writing
>> corresponds to a discipline inherent to drawing. Both writing and
>>³drawings²
>> share a visual dominance in human cultures. You might say that some
>>cultures
>> are not as visually dominated as others, but the fact is that when
>>visual
>> apparatus invade a human culture, they usually win over other forms.
>> It is interesting that you bring books into the discussion. A
>>dissertation
>> is, after all, a book and consequently should obey to formal
>>requirements of
>> that ³format². Our books, the books of our time, are heirs of the
>>printed
>> book in which letters and sentences were no longer drawn but
>>mechanically
>> printed. However, books appear earlier and were naturally profusely
>>mixing
>> words and images.
>> Best whishes,
>> Eduardo
>>
>>> No dia 18/10/2015, ąs 12:25, Keith Russell
>>> <[log in to unmask]> escreveu:
>>>
>>> Drawing is a gesture that has no direct relation with verbal language?
>>> Verbal language is a gesture that has no direct relation with language.
>>>
>>> Keith
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPad
>>>
>>>> On 18 Oct 2015, at 10:20 PM, anthi kosma <[log in to unmask]>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Starting with the quote of Jinan. Le Corbusier mensions the fact that
>>>> drawing is a gesture, a corporal movement that has no direct relation
>>>> with verbal language. Drawing in many recent definitions in no longer
>>>> received as an object. Images of the action is another story of images
>>>> and I was wondering if unflatness includes that kind of images. It
>>>>could
>>>> be a nice perspective.
>>>> Yours,
>>>> Anthi Kosma, Architect, Dea, PhD Independent researcher
>>>
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