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How to draw a building improperly
by Alfonso Perez Lopez on diagrams, incomplete process and pleasure. (The artist’s sorrow, suffering, weariness, and discouragement. Certainly there is a whole romantic pathos surrounding the pain of engendering art, inflected as if in response to traditional legends about the pleasures of young artists. But in spite of the complacent excess of this pathos, one cannot misrecognize…
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doodlemania
Doodle is “A rough drawing made absent-mindedly”, said Oxford Dictionary. Yes, we all know them, they are these small drawings made with pen often found in the margins of school notebooks. Last week I found myself enjoying/making a big doodle for a small advertisement. What surprised me, once more, in this process of drawing was the pleasure that…
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leaving or staying
“El tercero es mi favorito […] qué opinas?”, me comentó Eva enviándome estas tres imágenes (a la izquerda). Pero esta frase se puede traducir también “Anthokosmos, es hora que te pongas a escribir unas frases. Empieza con esos dibujos. Llevas casi una semana sin escribir seriamente!”. Bajo estas demandas (algunas interpretadas otras no) y dado que…