After the guild show this weekend, Rosalie Dace taught a class called Line Dance in which she demonstrated practical ways to create lines with specific qualities (e.g., v-e-r-y skinny lines, random curved lines) and also showed a lot of examples of lines in photographs and art. One of my favorite things from the class was her characterizations of line as:
Straight Horizontal Vertical Diagonal Continuous Broken Random Crunchy Thin Thick Soft Gentle Repeated Make a shape Suggest a shape Define an edge Overlapping Rhythmic Wavy Suggest tracery Lacy Fuzzy Parallel Dark Light Different scales Wide Narrow (NB: I'm not sure how -- or whether -- "thick/thin" differs from "wide/narrow" but there is the whisper of a distinction in my former wordmongering mind.) Organic Curved Shadows make lines Spaces between shapes make lines (like mortar lines between bricks) Grids Weaving Zigzag Over an image Radiating
So many intriguing possibilities beyond "stipple" in the machine's programmed stitches guide, isn't it?
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Art is the dynamic edge between the conscious and the unconscious. It is [the] position of transcendental awareness.
—Richard Pousette-Dart
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. —Helen Keller
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. —John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. —Carl Jung
—Richard Pousette-Dart
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. —Helen Keller
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. —John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. —Carl Jung
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