Wednesday, May 8, 2013

as we embark on the journey of building
a garage/studio and rebuilding
a house
i've been thinking of the patterning process,
mapping a dream,
and was reminded how it began with 
a pattern language.
and then
this surfaced:
 published in 1965
 another book about charting
mapping
 as usual, i've never gone into the exegesis
let alone read the entire thing,
just used what i wanted, frankly.
 (i may be the world's guiltiest skipper)
but,  just look at these illustrations!
 and then i saw this one, and my head,
like the unfortunate boy's 
swelled
 blue lines
 my pack always looks like this

 the curves for watercraft 

 i LOVE this
all alone
who says?
who says?
all you need is a little perspective!

18 comments:

  1. what a treasure! i dreamed of swimming like that, but with head above water, last night.

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  2. I just dropped into the way past/---and it was pure fun.

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  3. Goodness.. not even sure what to make of all those charts. I love that road illustration - beautiful light. It has beautiful dimensionality, yet is somewhat flat. Does that make sense?

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  4. Oh, and, that guy in the car with STOP is Clark Kent, I think, with kid gloves on... and I didn't get why the caption underneath the kid with the Dr. asks the question it does? My, I'm getting waaaaay into studying these!

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  5. aimee, why were you swimming so strangely?
    ms, yes, my past, too.
    valerie, it's a hoot, this book. i just love it. and it's totally got me thinking about the mapping/tracking thing.

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  6. the guy has the dick tracy attributive hat and the book is a gem of a book.
    building and re-building?

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  7. india, serpently!
    neki, nifty hat!

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  8. i always imaging my work might be an illustration of how it happened.

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  9. of course you do, jude, it's narrative implicit

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  10. sometimes the mapping is the best part of the journey. I will join you in the "skipping club"

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  11. jean, i am SO guilty about the skipping thing...sometimes i make myself read an entire book because i really want to know something, but i forget all but what i actually needed to read.

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  12. Hi V - I really loved the blue lines that the boy was swimming in - they were divine! A lovely little wander - I thought your skipping left us with some gems!

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  13. what a very cool book! thanks for sharing.
    i'm going to go look for my copy of a pattern language, it's been a long time....

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  14. it's one of those classics that are important in so many ways

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  15. what a cool vintage book! and yeah, how dismissive of the Egyptians and medievalists... can't wait to see how studio emerges...

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