How to cope with drawing

When reasoning through pictures

Although the big variety of digital tools available for project planning today, there are tools not yet applied in their greatest potential, the tools inherited from our natural expression devices. Tools like the drawing, sketch, and doodling enable new perspectives on problem solving, building a bridge with a creativity thought lost after childhood. The paper medium works not only as a surface to portray the visual element but also to display the intelligible reasoning pictures resultant from the realm of emotional constructions of reality sketched by the author. In adulthood the link is lost due the broken emotional connection with the dialogue between the urge and the surface, before, in childhood interacting with the surface of expression was fluent and natural. After childhood is lost the translating mechanism, the one that allowed to simplify those emotional experiences into the drawing. There is a chance in adulthood to recover this lost link through the use of a patch, the recovery of contrast of dimensions between the author and his surface of expression.

As a child a sheet of paper was always large to deploy our graphical ideas, as adult often the sheet of paper is nothing more than a intimidate white square.

In adulthood there is the chance to incorporate in the reasoning through pictures the amplitude of body movement and the way this gesture amplifies the kind of interaction resulted from the intersection between thoughts, drawing and resulting reasoning.

The contrast between author and medium will “patch” the broken link. As adults we can develop our ideas in a large surface, one that has the same enchantment from the small sheet of paper where we translated in childhood our dreams enabling us now to sketch our ideas for the future. To maintain some of the primitive and natural reasoning distant from any artificial and false representation skills learned after childhood is a question of playing (a crucial aspect) with different sizes and contrasts. We need the distance to achieve monumentality as well as to delimit a problem, different perspective enable us to evolve, and the empty wall in our living room allows just that…