Studio Glossary

art that does not try to mimic a camera's view...actually maybe it has nothing to do with what looks representational or not, maybe its just art that uses personal symbology

"The last refuge of the scoundrel"-David Reed (as I remember him saying)

The act of putting life in a mark

As a student explained it, not being able to draw from their minds eye.....Now, how to define "minds eye"....

writing without language

mobility with the most stability

an uppity name for a workshop

a willingness to be absorbed in what is at hand, comes in different rythms intensities and paces, might be related to state of mind or consciousness or concentration and might be good to parse in order to self-know a practice

depth of form with no orthogonals

beaux arts tradition, european tradition?

Manga by and for men

eeek! how deep inside it am I and can I get out with all that is useful from it?

what is in front of your body, that you eyes can see.

what happened until now.

controlled intuition?!

"is a composition of drawing and writing: like writing its done with a brush and ink on a blank background; like drawing, its a visual language based on shape, gesture and tonality; and, like drawing, it's usually done on a blank surface, and negative space that is taken into consideration, and its overall composition." Amy Sillmans

moving inward?

moving out?

everything we COULD be aware of at the moment...

isolating edges

hard to explain, almost surface and edge at once....multiple contours to delinieate a surface and its volume

drawing words that connect

drawing aiming to communicate more than express

finding more dimension

a kind of free style drawing

"A drawing is an ideal means of coming nearer to the whole, to the fullness of what humankind means, and what social order means.… My thinking on drawings as a special form of materialized thought is this: they are the beginning of changing the material condition of the world"

-Joseph Beuys

In this immediate moment, drawing is a way to steal attention back from the digital currency that it has become.

Drawing is a meditation in action, a practice of alternating ways of seeing, ways of looking and ways of thinking. A way to become more flexible of mind.

It is the labor of looking.

Drawing from one’s minds eye is a way to ideate that feels almost digestive, a way to take in, digest and release experience

Drawing from observation is a way to observe the dimension of the world, a way to check one’s head, to hone one’s reality testing, and stabilize oneself.

Drawing is a translation between dimensions.

Drawing is a way to memorize the world

It’s a way to study time, and to be in time, not consuming space but making space from nothing.

It’s a way to world build, if that’s your thing, but it’s a relatively cheap version and usually doesn’t come with overproduction.

It’s a way to get to the edges of the written word without writing per say.

It’s a way to bide time without doing harm.

It’s a way to compose oneself and play with composition.

It’s mark-making and substrate making at once.

It’s a way to rove the unconscious.

It’s a way to exercise/exorcise attention.

It’s relief and respite for us dyslexics.

A way to find, explore and demonstrate voice.

There is no progress in drawing in history, it doesn’t get better or worse from the cave painters onward.

Drawing is for ideation meditation translation and exploration

Above all, drawing is a way to subjectify everything.

a drawing that correlates with a series of moves

the contour where light meets dark and dark meets light

writing ( but maybe making?) in response to another art form... like Poetry Drawings?

Working on this...Abstract drawing? Drawing that is not done from direct observation? But perception? Conceptual drawing? Oooof! What is observational drawing anyway, a Beaux Arts organization of how to teach art? How much of that do we want to use?

? and figuration

...how forms compress when they tilt away from "you"

the way a subject comes into shape or being?

forcefield of an artwork

drawing words on public surfaces

a kind of drawing

In western art the sky and the Earth appear as two levels. The one above the other conventionally, defined and identified by a number of accessories for sky, for instance, clouds... in contrast in Chinese arts, sky and earth constitute to antithetical terms that through their very opposition combine to produce the landscape provided that the painter has been able with his brushstroke to seize his upon the rhythm in which they interact.

Before beginning to paint far from defining the space of the representation in advance, as a finite area, he "reserved" the place for the sky and the Earth, and only then in the middle, left empty, decides upon the landscape, which is seen as a resolution of the contradiction of sky earth, and at the same time as a way of passing beyond it....

quotes from Hubert Damisch's Theory of Clouds

to attempt to manifest whats in your head using a drawing instrument

"to light up, to make things clear and visible"

thanks to Aletta Ren

the space of all drawing....whether physics from the IRL world apply or not

queen of all lines

something waiting to be brought into being

the value that something is independent of the current lighting conditions ( what the what? is that even possible?)

seeing with intuition?

what we are driven to do beyond intuition

what we are driven to do beyond intention

in real life

good for picking up particles on medium from a page in varying degrees; good for anxiety and kinesthetic drawers

good question... drawing from anything animate? how about figure drawing, from any figure?

a network of lines that can create an effect of depth that implies the negation of the plane onto which its projected.

extension, homogenous continuous and infinite, and at once centered and fixed....beginning of the end? very cool?

some words here are pinched from Hubert Damisch's Orgin of Perspective

A cultural technique that "is the basic act of conquering the world, now turned into a picture, by means of projective graphic operations that turn the subject inot a stage of respresentation...the eye is the active principle of design that connects the artists workshop with the navigator's globe" Bernard Siegerts Cultural Techniques

whats a line is like 

the effect of line's weight, direction and speed all in one

the values that are present because of the specific lighting conditions at hand

any stuff you are using to make art

the materials that apply effect/affect?.... i.e. not paper or substrates......maybe not stuff that holds itself, but needs a vehicle to exist in or onto?!

Illustrating life as it appears in a camera lens

observing from inside

space between objects

the side that doesnt take over.
Lydia Davis on her left hand

drawing from what is before you (or behind you)

versus representational

What your iPhone or cellphone is telling you when you take a picture is only a teeny slice of what is in front of it when you take the picture. It’s an image of a fragment of time of reality.
-Samia Hallaby Slams

via the internet

how the world continues to seem to us

sandpapers the top surface of the page, not much intimacy with particles, a bulldozer

sensitized, keeps coming

creative destruction?

remaking the world in ones own perception

translating into an image

drawing as a riff on the camera's eye

hard or soft, Im confused

The quote above is from Chloe Piene (Thanks to Ian Trout)

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the drawing of your name

seeing just the overall shape of a form

having a healthy relationship with an approach

smudges in order to diffuse a material and spread it into the tooth of a page....you can make one yourself.... you need sandpaper to clean it

specular, like a mirror, but with no relfection...

technique used to create attitude

"Drawings, the best of them, pulsate in my mind; they are always nearly incandescent with opportunity: look at what the eye and the hand and the imagination can do together, let's take it up a notch! Let's go further! Today you can have a thought and call it a drawing and why not since drawing begins with a thought or the hope of birthing one from the subconscious?"
- Hilton Als

surface for drawing

the impossible task of no side being dominant

stability with the most mobility

sensing one sense within another

when text makes visual texture

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only lines used to show volume

the degree of light or dark or in between

a poignant piece of....?

on a screen

taken from poetry, but for drawing perhaps: a surprising turn or shift in an image

applies to drawing? maybe drawing can be respite from this grandiosity actually

manga by and for women