Study/Exercise [Study 7]
In one medium or another, wet or dry, marks are the beginning of all pictorial expression for child and adult. Concepts (and whatever else) must achieve the quality of some kind of image-language. Lines as optical guides in space, coordinating elements, definers of form and space, and signifier of idea and feeling, tend to assume the principal role.
We'll want as many tools or implements as possible for making marks--wide and narrow, wet and dry, firm and blurred, rough and delicate. We'll also want various kinds of paper--thick and thin, coarse and smooth, resistant and soft, "art" papers and ordinary papers. The difference between a line and a stain or a smear (all of which are kinds of marks) may depend on these qualities alone, and on whether the paper is used wet or dry.
We could try, in a number of "experiments," to explore two things at once: the physical and the esthetic potentials of our tools and materials as well as our innate powers of presentation, or making signs and images where previously there was nothing.
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