Friday, March 2, 2007

These readings helped me to both reflect on our processes of diagramming and frame the perspective drawing exercise ahead of us. This semester, our uses of axon and perspective are closely in line with Bernhard Schneider's disscussion of these methods. As the axonometric drawing does not prescibe itself to the laws of visual perception, it opens up to presenting relationships that may not be understood from a perspectival vantage point. Axonometric drawings in our class have described construction diagrams and programmatic relationships. Our task of drawing perspectivally will force us to think at the scale of person in space and to test relationships from eye-level. The perspective's reference to human visual perception leads to a "tangible" representation, understood by the senses. As a tangible space, the representation must necessarily have a temporal and narrative component because it references real experience and direction. Rem's perspectival photographic sequences in "A Day in the Life" poetically describe the narratives of several workers in his space. The human figures and vantage points at eye-level are compelling instruments that persuade the viewer to visually stroll through his representation of space. These representations speak to the persuasive power of a perspective to be instantly accessible. Both the trained and untrained eye can understand how a perspectival space is occupied because the method of representation follows the rules of our everyday visual experience.

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