Getting some perspective
I happened to be walking along this particular path at high noon and was struck by this highly geometric image:
Which got me thinking about perspective. As any good cartoonist knows (and often intentionally ignores), pretty much all of our man-made world can be rendered by a small number of basic shapes – rectangular solids for the most part (with some spheres and rods thrown in for good measure). Anyway, I started to look around at buildings and their insides (rooms) and came to the stunning realization:
"Wow, there are an awful lot of flat surfaces and right angles, aren't there?"
Like this cityscape:
Yep, it sure appears that our world is basically Squaresville. But … only OUR world. Because I then noticed with a little surprise that the REAL world (the one that probably wouldn't mind if mankind went away for a while) isn't this way at all. There are pretty much no flat surfaces and right angles at all. Like this landscape, to take a for-instance:
And the ocean isn't much different, is it? Jiggly and bumpy and misty:
(This nifty image is one I like so much I produced it as a giclee on canvas. Kind of calming and Zenish, imho.)
But to return to the point, things in nature tend to be all curvy and interesting, not planar and boring.
I believe that this must be the true reason for the clutter in my studio. It's not that I'm messy – I'm just unconsciously trying to bring the organic forms of the natural world into my work environment. Yeah, that's what it is …
- And that's today's word from the bird
