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Over a thousand years ago Chinese painting scholars advised artists to follow some basic principles. They included presenting a landscape with an experience of the near, middle and far distance. Vertical arrangements should consider the earthly or worldly lower domain … Continued
You and I have a brain that tells us where to look and what to look for. It’s selective and predictive. It looks on to the environment’s reflective patterns of light with expectations. It stops when it finds them. The … Continued
If you and I were to go back to the earliest purposeful distortions of linear perspective we would look at ancient Greece and the construction of the Parthenon. The designers knew that the building could appear longer if the viewer … Continued
The dazzling spectacle of translucent water revealing two different palettes within the same visual field always seduces my eye. The palette below the water is more subdued, often occluded by surface motion, shadows, reflections and floating material. The palette of … Continued
The drama of waves crashing against rocks attracts us with its bright contrasts of sunlight and shadow, its dynamic continuity, always changing never static, its theatrical thunderous sound, and, its sparkling explosions. We are biologically hard-wired to attend to high … Continued
On personal trips to Rome I discovered ornate and enormous mosaic floors. In Palestrina you walk over windows revealing intricate Roman mosaics below. These were the floors of vast villas or grand bathhouses. On a more intimate scale Romans created … Continued