Bruno Munari: Air Made Visible

During one of the sessions I was introduced to Bruno Munari's work, in particular a section from his book 'Air Made Visible'. It was intriguing how he studied the aesthetic and scientific make up of an oak leaf and visually created a number of different possibilities. 

I traced over a copy of an oak leaf paying particular attention to which ever relationship I was concentrating on, the eternal points of the leaf, joining up the inner and outer points of the leaf and drawing from the stem to each external point. It created a number of different structures and patterns which were never ending. It interested me as I was able to explore a variety of different structures that initially you wouldn't have even thought about. It was taught me to look further into the usual everyday objects as something pretty interesting could come out of it. 

some of my own versions of mapping the structure of an oak leaf.

Image Workshop

Draw: to visually record using the method of mark making.

           replicate/ transfer/ interpret/ copy

           visual hand made rendition conveying anything

           visually communicating to an audience  

Darren held an image workshop. Initially I was very sceptical and nervous about drawing and working with images in front of the rest of the group as I know its not my strong point. However Darren really helped the class to just relax and basically forget about it all and we drew objects without looking at the paper and another without looking and with my left hand. 

This is a drawing of my keys and key rings using my left hand and not looking at the paper.

I was worried as we looked around everyones results, however when we discussed what we felt drawing was we all agreed on mark making- which ultimately is what we had done. Even though my piece really is a load of crap squiggles  the perspective was a lot better than my first one where i looked at both the object and the paper, so I could definitely see where Darren was coming from.