Wall of a Modern Cave: Shadows and Reality
With apologies to Plato:
Tag Archives: shadows
Instructions to the Shadows (the White Line Gets It)
Camouflaged ‘T’ in Hiding
Nascent Pink Line Surrounded by Forces of Darkness
Isolation Rm. Exhaust and Shadows
I’m glad that these ducts are labeled, but I wonder if people know where the exhaust vent is. I like the flat shadows and how the curved ones cast by the ribs define the pipe.
Broken Heart
This shadow is interesting…
Edgeless
The biography of Leonardo DaVinci that I am reading, has a passage that tells about his revelation that there are no lines in nature. Leonardo explained that there is an “infinite gradation of shades and blending of them, which does not allow precise borders.”* Apparently, Leonardo studied and wrote quite a bit about shadows and […]
Parking Lot – Under a Tree
There was daylight today during my break. The sun had not even set. It cast strong tall shadows. I planted myself under a tree and took the picture shown below.
Hand Shadow on Hand
This abstract began as a free-form pencil sketch. A shape with three protrusions reminded me of a hand. I masked out a hand shape in front of the three-fingered one. Then I sketched in the missing two fingers of the partially hidden hand. This was difficult. The thumb and first two fingers face the viewer; […]
Phone Booth
There was a time when people would have to find a telephone, attached by wires to Ma Bell’s network, if they wished to talk with someone far away. In fact, utility poles were called ‘telephone poles’, once upon a time, because they carried the wires, upon which telephone conversations were conducted. During my wanderings today, […]
