Site, Sketchbook, State of Mind, Seeing

Date: To be announced
Material required for the workshop:
Timing:
Zoom link:
Videos you can watch:
Selected Readings:
- Phenomenology of Perception, Merleau Ponty, Chapter Part I, The Body, looking at Experience and objective Thought. Pg no: 77, Experience and objective thought – Start – “Our perception ends in objects,…”
- Tim Ingold, The life of Lines, Chapter 17 Coiling Over, Pg no: 84, Start – “Recall that for Merleau-Ponty, the essence….”
- Object Oriented Ontology, Graham Harman, Chapter 4, Indirect Relations – The Tension in Objects, pg no: 154, Start – “However we have not yet considered Husserl’s greatest insight….”
- Gibson, The Ecological approach to Visual Perception, Chapter 12, looking with the head and eyes, pg no: 203, Start – “We modern, civilized, indoors adults…”
- Merleau Ponty on Paul Cezanne in The Primacy of Perception, Chapter 5, Eye and Mind, Pg no: 162, Start – “I have only to see something to know…”
- Leonardo da Vinci, Basic Art Series, Frank Zollner. Chapter – Restless Interlude, pg no: 67, Start – “In the summer of 1502,….”
- Works of Maruyama Okyo, the line work and scroll ( Online link)
- https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/A_1913-0501-0-515
- Satre, The Imaginary, Chapter , pg no:
- Edmund Husserl, Ideas, Chapter – Noesis and Noema, 88. Real (Reelle) and intentional factors of Experience. The Noema, pg no: 184-185, page 185 – Paragraph: “Perception, for instance….”
- Point and line to Plane, Wassily Kandinsky, Chapter: Line, Pg no: 57, Start – “The geometric line is an invisible thing…”
https://docs.google.com/document/d/153bCUCZsjWItE24_IbXWRFRDW885Q3vOuincBu1BeVY/edit
( google document containing pages of selected books)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mcAn0PxCtf0YyoluDKwa25Tac8v1Ku6MQxToWl0VmW4/edit?usp=sharing
(google document containing pages from chapter – experience and objective thought)
Material to draw with:
- Pens, pencil, charcoal, brush, ink, watercolour, dry pastel, oil stick
- I PAD – apple pencil drawing, Mouse, Coding
- Scissor, Glue stick, cardboard paper, cutting matt, cutting blade
Material to draw on
- sketchbook, loose sheets of paper
- existing sketchbooks
- newspaper, magazine, pre printed material
- anything apart from Paper, Pulp etc
Exercises:
- Posture, body to approach the paper ( standing, sitting etc)
- movement of the body with the paper ( rotation etc)
Reference of my work:
- How to draw series – Reference of How to how to Climb Stairs video
- How to climb stairs drawings
- observation of looking and seeing – near, far, middle ground
- Pick a physical SITE.
- writing on your work
- looking and seeing
Number of days (1 to 3 to 5 days)
Email: gobind1699@gmail.com