Students will explore form and its relationship to function, distinguish between looking and seeing and investigate how scale impacts the visual experience from the microscopic to larger than life. Light makes the work visible. Students will become intimate with the interplay of values which give visual weight to form. Students will also flesh out the nuances of a variety of drawing materials by both traditional an d non-traditional experimentation, as a balance to the more disciplined methods of observational drawing. The seeming differences between Art and Biology will dissolve into a mythical voyage of discovery where those differences become similarities.
Good biologists wander in a state of perpetual learning, of constant awareness.
The formulation of an hypothesis comes from the observation of something which does not fit what is known. The anomaly is recognized and then studies. The process of art-making is similar. It, too, is a desire to know , to understand that which is seen. Among others, students will consider the work of Da Vinci, an excellent example of an artist who studied form and function by drawing.