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Re: Mack, a question?

Posted By: MACK!
Date: MON, 6/4/01, 5:43 a.m.

In Response To: Mack, a question? (Victor Destefano)

: I feel kinna stupid for asking, but I'm wondering about
: 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.

: 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.
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:

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of unconscious sacred geometry looking things that sometimes look like the shapes that make up crop circles or some outdated pictographic language.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.

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Messages In This Thread

NEW: Mack, a question? -- Victor Destefano -- MON, 6/4/01, 12:30 a.m.
NEW: Re: Mack, a question? -- MACK! -- MON, 6/4/01, 5:43 a.m.
NEW: Re: Mack, a question? -- Victor Destefano -- MON, 6/4/01, 8:23 a.m.
NEW: i like the spirals better than the triangles... -- terry lohmeyer -- MON, 6/4/01, 9:16 a.m.
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