Illustration
The issue, for me, seems to be how illustration is different from art (obviously a lot of images are either, depending on the way you define the categories). For now, I’m thinking that for...
Category: art
Extending Gesture
Enterprising research students at the University of Edinburgh have invited me to be a keynote speaker at a weekend conference they’re hosting this coming October. I am honored! It coincides with the work of...
Pages and Posts
Now that we’ve all become publishers, we may think about such abstruse things as the difference between a post and a page. Maybe a post is a bit of news; a page is more...
Subject, Object and Motorcyle Maintenance
Rereading Robert Pirsig’s Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (1974) is a pleasure, maybe because it feels so comfortable. The road between Minneapolis and Bozeman means something to me, intersects with my family....
Making Sparks
Michelangelo’s Creation of Adam, painted on the Sistine Chapel ceiling between 1508 and 1512, depicts creativity as a gap between two distinct, independently coherent human bodies. A complex and controversial visualisation of the account of Creation given in the Biblical Book of Genesis,...
Epistemology Engine
Fine turn of phrase! It’s a device that people of a given time and place recognise as a metaphor for knowledge. The “engine” bit implies that the image drives the acquisition of knowledge. In...