ASSIGNMENT #1: FIRST REVISION &
THE NOTEBOOK
Artistic Praxis: Students
will either revise or completely re-do one of the two in-class exercises (on
your own) for Week 2.
Notebook: Every
single week, you should be paying attention to the world around you to find
connections between the classroom and your daily life. Please bring in pictures, writing, youtube
clips, music… anything that you see as relevant to the subjects we are
discussing. Perhaps this week, you could
attune yourself to the theme of repetition.
Musing: Look around in DaVinci’s notebook http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/index.htm. And also,
if you desire, in his Sistine Chapel— (http://www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html). This could easily take you hours, even days. At some point, extricate yourself in order to
complete the re-vision assignment. DaVinci’s notebook contains writing and
drawings (you must click on the items labeled Pl.2, 3, etc. to see the drawings
and diagrams that accompany the text) pertaining to physics, biology, botany, painting,
anatomy, and invention. He denied
himself no sector of knowledge, but he also acknowledged that composing his
thoughts on so many disparate things could lead to a lack of organization in
his notebook and to a certain circularity.
I encourage you to take up his attitude when beginning your artist’s
book:
And this is to be a collection without order, taken from many papers
which I have copied here, hoping to arrange them later each in its place,
according to the subjects of which they may treat. But I believe that before I
am at the end of this [task] I shall have to repeat the same things several
times; for which, O reader! do not blame me, for the subjects are many and
memory cannot retain them [all] and say: 'I will not write this because I wrote
it before.’
–from
“The Prolegomena”
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