Shadow can be in the texture, shadow suggests volume from a 2D image. But what if there is no shadow? Not any shadow? The intensity of color, the line weight, the texture, all that gives dimension to an ordinary image. Shadow is one of the dimensions.
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Just like we enhance technology, drawings tend to approach reality-at least in a period. Oil paintings are real, then come the impressionists, then we move to abstract art. There is also technology that goes in the middle. As technology advanced, things become more real. Just like games advanced, we can experience a more "realistic" world. GTAV is is a great example. But after amazed by the experience, what's left with us? The process is important, but we are not here for purely entertainment, we seek for meaning. I think meaning does not lies in the reality itself, but the story. That's why I start to question photos. You are amazed by the information that you extract from a single photo, or realistic paintings, or rococo decorations, ... But are we amazed by the information, or are we fooled by it? Browsing social media keeps us going, but what are we left with? It flows in, and it flows away. I'd rather look at a photo like this and imagine. Advanced technology limits us, and blinds is in some way, so we have to travel away from it as well. Moving to another place simply to try to experience, but go to the Internet and social media is not what travel is all about. Just imagine. Or examine a zen garden for a minute. But not too long-you will get lost and get bored on that as well. And we don't like to get bored. Well, it's not easy to make our brain function well. Wood, wild, forest.
It's me inspired by J.B. Jackson's writing. There was not a boundary, now there is. It becomes our territory. It becomes functional, just like every other man-made structure. Forrest for sound barrier, for crops, for recreation. It's like a movie and a spoiler, or seeing the plan above. We like, but fear the wilderness, just like the prehistoric men. But it keeps things interesting. What is repetition? It's something familiar. Why do you not like Jazz music? There is less repetitive notes. Why do you like it? Because we learned it, we conquered it, and now it's repetitive. But art is mysterious, and we don't like it. But we should create it, because it's just like nature, or the wilderness. It's unknown, and you don't know what God had created. The art does not speak to you in that way. Or you like art because of its realness. Reality does not entertain us that much, we get bored as well. Let's look into the words, I'll look up the word in Chinese and see if someone has studied it. This article is me trying to make sense of the way we do site design. The first part is circulation. When you think of ecological design or the role of landscape architecture, you would consider the relationship between human and nature. Looking back on the way we design in the modern age, it appears to me that there are 3 types of site design. You either start from circulation, or art, or ecology.
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