500 Posts

Celebrate! Just opened a notification from wordpress saying that I've made 500 posts. Sort of a co-incidence that this post, #501, I've planned as being a recap of all the teaching I've done on zoom in the past few years. This is the longest post I've ever written, which seems appropriate for #501? Truth is,…

The Elusive Details

Pleats and Solids On Page 7 of the instructional tome, Books, Boxes, and Portfolios, written by Swiss artist and designer Franz Zeier (1923- 2011), he explains why his opening chapter is about creating geometric solids. He writes: "The inclusion of the chapter on making geometric solids is only superficially surprising. If manual dexterity in dealing…

Moires: A Reason to Tile

Just before Valentines Day the usual group of suspects who capture my attention with their outrageously playful exploration of ideas once again were posting images that stopped me in my tracks.  I have to say that when I saw what they were doing I made a decision not to participate because I was busy-with-other-things.  But…