Lactation Room
Feb. 21st, 2007 10:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tanarillI'm serious. On the inside of the bathroom door at work, there's a notice that a small, previously conference room has been turned into a lactation room. For nursing women.
. . . did I need to know this?
Anyway, I feel less like murderizing something today and more like doing something useful.
Title: Hellen Keller
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Beethoven was deaf.
A person might find this ironic, if they didn’t know the secret. I know the secret, so I find it extremely satisfying instead. Beethoven was deaf long before he stopped composing, and his works are considered Classics among the classical.
I am an artist, a painter. Yes, I am wearing sunglasses. My eyes are sensitive, which is, in my profession, a boon. I mix my colors and fill in the empty spaces, except that as I do it, I am creating empty spaces. The art of painting is far too full of fools who cover up the whiteness, when they should be shaping it instead.
When I paint, of course, I take my canvas paper and my drawings and I put the color where it belongs. Others have commented that my studio is very dim, but that is only so that I am not blinded the pictures. I still need some light to mix the shades and colors, but I’d do without it if I could.
For my sketches, for my studies and my outlines, I work blindfolded in a pitch-dark room, and see what I draw better. That’s the secret: it’s very hard to draw with light.
Beethoven was deaf, but this removed only the distractions, not the music.
***
Title: Laser Stripped
Rating: G
Warnings: Geek'd
It’s very hard to draw with light.
Drawing with dark is much easier; dark is the addition of absence, while light is the absence of absorption. Covering a sheet of paper with a few places that don’t reflect is far easier than giving an absorbent area the ability to reflect. But if you do figure out how to do it–not merely cover up the dark, but uncover the light–it’s worth the effort.
People who can draw with light are not limited in their art.
A cloudbank, and plastic bag, and a laser pointer. A balloon and the wind. A word, a motion, a thing of grace and of beauty. The uncovering of a leaf that’s not really a leaf anymore, as the mesophyll has dissolved and left only the bundles of phloem and xylem behind.
The uncovering of anything, of everything that you should have seen but didn’t.
It’s easy to draw with dark–easy to cover up what’s there with splotches of absorbence and reflectance. But the true artist is one who can draw out the light, blend it, bend it like the multifaceted gem plumage of a hummingbird, which is all just beads of air in any case, and send it back multiplied and magnified far beyond that which there was in the beginning.
It’s very hard to draw, with light.
The prompt was "It's very hard to draw with light." I though of #2 halfway through #1 and had to write both.
God. Work term sooooo needs to be over now. I'm ready for school term.
. . . did I need to know this?
Anyway, I feel less like murderizing something today and more like doing something useful.
Title: Hellen Keller
Rating: G
Warnings: None
Beethoven was deaf.
A person might find this ironic, if they didn’t know the secret. I know the secret, so I find it extremely satisfying instead. Beethoven was deaf long before he stopped composing, and his works are considered Classics among the classical.
I am an artist, a painter. Yes, I am wearing sunglasses. My eyes are sensitive, which is, in my profession, a boon. I mix my colors and fill in the empty spaces, except that as I do it, I am creating empty spaces. The art of painting is far too full of fools who cover up the whiteness, when they should be shaping it instead.
When I paint, of course, I take my canvas paper and my drawings and I put the color where it belongs. Others have commented that my studio is very dim, but that is only so that I am not blinded the pictures. I still need some light to mix the shades and colors, but I’d do without it if I could.
For my sketches, for my studies and my outlines, I work blindfolded in a pitch-dark room, and see what I draw better. That’s the secret: it’s very hard to draw with light.
Beethoven was deaf, but this removed only the distractions, not the music.
***
Title: Laser Stripped
Rating: G
Warnings: Geek'd
It’s very hard to draw with light.
Drawing with dark is much easier; dark is the addition of absence, while light is the absence of absorption. Covering a sheet of paper with a few places that don’t reflect is far easier than giving an absorbent area the ability to reflect. But if you do figure out how to do it–not merely cover up the dark, but uncover the light–it’s worth the effort.
People who can draw with light are not limited in their art.
A cloudbank, and plastic bag, and a laser pointer. A balloon and the wind. A word, a motion, a thing of grace and of beauty. The uncovering of a leaf that’s not really a leaf anymore, as the mesophyll has dissolved and left only the bundles of phloem and xylem behind.
The uncovering of anything, of everything that you should have seen but didn’t.
It’s easy to draw with dark–easy to cover up what’s there with splotches of absorbence and reflectance. But the true artist is one who can draw out the light, blend it, bend it like the multifaceted gem plumage of a hummingbird, which is all just beads of air in any case, and send it back multiplied and magnified far beyond that which there was in the beginning.
It’s very hard to draw, with light.
The prompt was "It's very hard to draw with light." I though of #2 halfway through #1 and had to write both.
God. Work term sooooo needs to be over now. I'm ready for school term.
