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Re: Mack, a question?
Posted By: MACK! In Response To: Mack, a
question? (Victor Destefano) : I feel kinna stupid for asking, but I'm wondering about : DD18 was great by the way. Nice work.
Glad you like the new DD. Keep an eye out for #19 which I just recently
finished.
I do use the triangles as an element of design to direct the readers eye to
focal points on the page. Besides the sequence of images there is also a
hierarchy of images on each page. I generally just keep working at the design
until I think the map is there that navigates your eye in the right order,
direction, and keeps it on the right points for the right amount of TIME.
I noticed that when I talk on the phone, i'f I'm not already drawing
something specific, that I will begin drawing things without any conscious
thought behind them. I noticed this like twenty years ago. Except that whenever
I do this, I don't draw any images. Without thinking, I just draw these bizzare
patterns of geometric shapes. Some kind of unconscious sacred geometry looking
things that sometimes look like the shapes that make up crop circles or some
outdated pictographic language. The primary shapes in these are often triangles,
trapezoids, rhombuses and parellelograms.
So I decided that whenever my consciuos design sense seemed to fail at
achieving the right ballance in the picture, that I would try to incorporate
elemements from my unconscious design sense into the composition. The triangles
are a part of this. They often bring in an extra dimesion to the design and very
simply create the heirchy in the page that I am looking for.
I always try to keep a certain balance between my conscious and unconscious
design sense, and between my analytical and my intuitive approach to the
composition.
Date: MON, 6/4/01, 5:43
a.m.
: your
triangles. Do you include them in your paintings
: to direct the eye, as a
David Mack 'sinature' or just
: 'cause they look cool?
: I thought it
was something to do with Kabuki, but then I
: saw it in alot of your other
stuff.
The triangles are one element of design that I pull out of the tool box when
I think it is appropriate. Usually the triangles are reserved for when the rest
of the page might border too much in the dimension of realism, or a more literal
stream of thought.
Here's why:
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