It Has Been Said; "How Weird!?"
I've been drawing and painting "digitally" a bit more lately.... as a result I have been watching people from a different perspective to some degree.... simply watching angles and shapes....
I especially have some nifty little curiosity with the human foot. So much so that the result in observation is almost as significant in a strange way as is the huge joke on humanity called cognitive thought.
Why is it that something so insignificant as would be the human foot in the scene of the rest of a paintings subject matter, is so hard to depict in a satisfactory manner? It is simply difficult to illustrate the human foot in a way that doesn't look odd... or at least peculiar. The times I have found success in such an endeavor has been when it is that I didn't really try to accurately depict the foot as it is and actually appears but more did so in a simple and suggestive manner without worrying about the particulars or trying to be literal in the reproduction of it in the painting or sketch.
Just weird... in an amusing way that is. Who would have thought that something no one ever really thinks about or considers, even when viewing paintings and such, would be so pertinent. A wonderful paradox if it is viewed from the proper perspective.
In that thought is the evidence that suggestion is as much or even more the object in performing such works, as is the literal depiction of anything. To use the capacity, perception and potentials of those who will experience it in heightening the effect and experience itself, is very much a part of the larger goal and undeniably so. NOT to force something will yield a greater result every time simply through that human relationship.
I especially have some nifty little curiosity with the human foot. So much so that the result in observation is almost as significant in a strange way as is the huge joke on humanity called cognitive thought.
Why is it that something so insignificant as would be the human foot in the scene of the rest of a paintings subject matter, is so hard to depict in a satisfactory manner? It is simply difficult to illustrate the human foot in a way that doesn't look odd... or at least peculiar. The times I have found success in such an endeavor has been when it is that I didn't really try to accurately depict the foot as it is and actually appears but more did so in a simple and suggestive manner without worrying about the particulars or trying to be literal in the reproduction of it in the painting or sketch.
Just weird... in an amusing way that is. Who would have thought that something no one ever really thinks about or considers, even when viewing paintings and such, would be so pertinent. A wonderful paradox if it is viewed from the proper perspective.
In that thought is the evidence that suggestion is as much or even more the object in performing such works, as is the literal depiction of anything. To use the capacity, perception and potentials of those who will experience it in heightening the effect and experience itself, is very much a part of the larger goal and undeniably so. NOT to force something will yield a greater result every time simply through that human relationship.
posted by Nefarious Aflatus | Saturday, May 06, 2006
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