Drawing with the Hand in Free Space

SHAPES I am currently investigating surface drawings that adopt a more abstract representation. These objects, less focused on replicating extant material forms, appear quite unlike physical sculptures or other computer graphics shapes. Figure 5 shows fthr, an example of this purely constructive process. These forms grow incrementally in a spatial balance. A salient characteristic of these objects is that they are hard to represent on the printed page. The three separate views of fthr demonstrate a rich three-dimensional complexity. Viewing the printed page, I find picturing the Fig. 3. fwr, triangle mesh, 2000. This shape was created from several hand gestures: defining motions which denote the edge of the petals, followed by motions to fill in the interior. to be published in Leonardo, August 2002