Thursday, May 02, 2013

Theravada retreat - 2D and 3D objects - 1:30pm - 23/03/2013

My small little insight

I saw a kid's drawing on the wall. It literally looks 2D. Lol. Very cute. Even though it's drawn at an perspective angle, the carpet looks like it's viewed on top.

One thought came to my mind, why is it that our eyes viewed the world in 3D format (with am angle, obviously), even starting right from the time we were born, but why do we have to learn to draw in 3D perspective? And its so difficult to learn?

Is it - a skill we picked up?
         - we are not really looking at objects? But only briefly seeing them, and let the rest register in our minds ( that's why we failed to capture the 3D aspect and let the mind do the rest of the generating to recognize it as 2D instead?
        - and if we learn to be aware of our sight, to really 'see' carefully, will our drawings tremendously improve? And all those drawing lessons where the teacher pinpoint the nook and corners of ankles, feet, etc will be unnecessary?

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