Hi Ruth I agree - except when drawing operates as a transcendent or subversive activity. Then you want it to operate on its own (as far as it can). Of course, this ideal is not possible but taking things away is as valuable as putting things in.
Best Simon On 02/05/2011 19:21, "Ruth Catlow" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Simon, > I remember being taught something similar when I was in art school. > It was useful- because it instils a discipline of looking. > > But it shouldn't be definitive. > > I think that drawing is something that first puts your eyes, hands, > imagination, memory, attitudes, emotions, aspirations, and internal > streams of consciousness in conversation with each other - and then in > conversation with others. > > : ) > Ruth > > -----Original Message----- > From: Simon Biggs <[email protected]> > Reply-to: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > To: NetBehaviour for networked distributed creativity > <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NetBehaviour] some landscapes > Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 19:02:41 +0100 > > > The mantra I ask my 11 year old son to remember is that drawing is something > you do with your eyes - and the hand follows. When he takes the time, like a > day to do a still life of flowers, he can produce exquisite images. > > Best > > Simon > > > On 02/05/2011 18:15, "tom.corby" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Lovely drawings Ruth. >> I started drawing again last year, it's a wonderful process and >> inherently discursive as it *forces* you to see the world as a series of >> relationships. >> >> Great stuff. >> >> On 02/05/2011 12:26, Ruth Catlow wrote: >>> Hello neighbours, >>> >>> Just back from a couple of weeks in the countryside - without an >>> Internet connection. >>> >>> Here I have blogged some drawings, photographs and videos that I made >>> while I was there. >>> http://www.furtherfield.org/blog/ruth-catlow/landscape-natureculture >>> >>> >>> : ) >>> Ruth >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NetBehaviour mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NetBehaviour mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > Simon Biggs > [email protected] > http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ > > [email protected] > http://www.elmcip.net/ > http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > > > _______________________________________________ > NetBehaviour mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour Simon Biggs [email protected] http://www.littlepig.org.uk/ [email protected] http://www.elmcip.net/ http://www.eca.ac.uk/circle/ _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
