Scale

The Miniature and the Gigantic 

Alice opened the door and found that it led into a small passage, not much larger than a rat-hole: she knelt down and looked along the passage into the loveliest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway; 'and even if my head would go through,' thought poor Alice, 'it would be of very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope! I think I could, if I only knew how to begin.' For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.... (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)

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Above images from Alice (1988) by Jan Svankmajer (<----link to film)

Colleen Moore's Fairy Castle at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry

Making friends with your sketchbook: a visual chronicle of your week

If you haven't had a chance to look back at the drawings that you have made in your sketchbook over this last week do so. Time allows you to look back with fresh eyes. In this final day before we meet tomorrow how can you approach looking at the world in a different way? 

Did you Read Pages 14-30 of  Drawing: Structure and Vision? 

Did you Incorporate Exercises 2.1,2.2, 2.3, 2.4 & 2.4a into your sketchbook assignment?

Don't forget to look at Peter Minshall's sketches for inspiration!
http://issuu.com/drawingcenter/docs/drawingpapers56_minshall

See you all tomorrow!

Process and Chance

Drawing, Chance and Process

Janine Antoni, Loving Care

Dan Colen: gum, grass stains, pigeon shit and confetti....

Drawing a Conversation

Here a a few links to videos to supplement todays lecture...

Deb Sokolow

Jenny Holzer

Glenn Ligon

Robert Montgomary

Journal/ Sketchbook Assignment: Textual sketches

and studies due March 16th:

•Open a Dictionary to random pages and point to words without looking and read definitions. Make a list of at least 10.

•Open a fictional book (any) and choose 5 sentences at random. Write them down.

•Phrases. Are there phrases, words or lines encountered in a movie, book or in life that fascinates you? Write them down. What struck you about it? Was it the rhythm? The humor? The spelling? The context? The meaning? The visual impact? collect phrases from all over your life. Keep a list. Over the spring break collect/study conversations (verbal/overheard, texts, email, letters, journals)

•Jokes. Make a list of 3 jokes that you know.

•Do you have a mantra?

•Have you ever created a new word or words?

•Have you ever misheard a lyric to a song and continue to sing the song that way?

How to make a Dadaist Poem (method of Tristan Tzara)

Dada Manifesto

 Hugo Ball

"The dancing mobiles" of Peter Minshall

Peter Minshall design

Peter Minshall design

Peter Minshall sketchbook 

Peter Minshall sketchbook

Peter Minshall sketchbook

carnival goers

Peter Minshall design

Also take a look at Mediating Mas: Trinidad Sketchbook, a project by Alex Kahn and Sophia Michahelles (2006) 

Hubcap Rhythm Jumbie 

Alex Kahn