DRAWING AND WRITING ARE ON THE DRAWING CONTINUUM

Let’s put the following all into one bowl and stir:  lingual characters,  scientific graphs, pictograms, logographic characters, petroglyphs, transparent drawing, heiroglyphics, etc. All of these we produce with a pencil and paper. Ergo, they are all drawings. And because all of them are drawn, we can ask how do they compare and relate to each other?  To ask this another way, which has the most communicative meaning?  Which works the hardest? To even try to answer this, we need to establish some sort of criteria or set of variables.  One criteria might be how self sufficient is the drawing?  How easily can it communicate meaning on it’s own?  Or how about this;  how independent is the drawing from it’s culture?  How universal is it?  How complete? This page makes a first, stumbling attempt to establish a Drawing Continuum.  The drawing above is a first attempt at this.  It attempts to show, transparently, how these various drawings relate within a somewhat three dimensional continuum.

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• Kitty Truong