Drawing Studies No.1, 2009
Processing and OpenGL software

This is a series of drawings of my workspace including my laptop, paper, clutter and everthing else that happens to be in front of me.
The conventional notion of perspective, dating from the Renaissance, privileges the viewer as the person for whose benefit the depiction of the world unfolds and whose gaze completes the image; the stability of his or her position is mirrored by the fixed vanishing point. In these drawing studies the Waterdrop-perspective that I'm exploring, remniscient to Tamas Waliczky's studies with Garden, is a quite different principle to the traditional model, structuring the drawing from a vantage point which lives inside the drawing itself:

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