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EYE
The gaze crosses distances, contours and intervals before the hand produces a mark.
KURT WESP YIANATOS
EXPLORING DRAWING
POINT → MOVEMENT → LINE
DRAW OUTSIDE THE PAGE.
Drawing begins before a mark reaches a surface.
A point is activated. Movement gives it duration. Duration produces a line.
01 — PROPOSITION
A line does not need
to belong
to a sheet of paper.
to belong
to a sheet of paper.
I approach drawing as a way of organizing perception rather than as a medium defined by pencil and paper.
A line can be projected between objects, followed by the eye, produced through the movement of a body or understood as a relation between positions in space.
The act of drawing therefore moves from representation toward operation: establishing points, relations, limits, sequences and movements.
02 — BOOK
AT THE THRESHOLD WHERE MOVEMENT IS DECIDED,
THERE IS A CONSTANT DIALOGUE BETWEEN
THE LINE AND THE SPACES OF THE PLANE.
Each line must serve a purpose.
READING MEDIA LIBRARY
03 — ACTIVATION
A POINT
STARTS TO MOVE.
VIDEO / DRAWING / METHOD
ACTIVATE
04 — DISPLACING R. DESCARTES’ DISCOURSE ON METHOD TOWARD THE PRACTICE OF DRAWING
01
EVIDENCE
Accept nothing as true unless it can be known clearly and distinctly. In drawing, begin from what can actually be distinguished.
02
ANALYSIS
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as possible and as necessary in order to resolve it.
03
ORDER
Conduct thought from the simplest relations toward the more complex, establishing an order even when one is not immediately given.
04
REVIEW
Make enumerations and reviews complete enough to be certain that nothing has been omitted.
05 — WHERE DOES THE LINE OCCUR?
↗
BODY
Walking, turning, reaching and changing position can generate lines without touching a drawing surface.
⌗
SPACE
Edges, objects and distances become a structure of invisible connections that can be selected and reorganized.
06 — ON DRAWING
DRAWING IS
A WAY
OF SEEING
RELATIONS.
Drawing was the first system through which I learned to decompose what I saw. Academic training initially organized this through proportion, geometry, contour and the human figure. With time, these structures became less a set of rules and more a way of recognizing relations.
A contour can be followed or interrupted. A stain can become structure. An error can redirect the image. The useful distinction is no longer between correct and incorrect marks, but between marks that close the image and marks that make another organization possible.
For this reason drawing can continue beyond the hand. Seeing, moving through a room, tracing a distance or defining a relation between two things can already contain the basic operation of drawing.