Information & Poetry

Controllable Elements There are other types of elements in the image. The ones the illustrator creates. Where to put them? How to distribute them? I suppose that to start thinking about this, you have to be aware that everything I add on a blank sheet of paper conditions the rest of the elements and spaces.…

The format In general, the format is rectangular. Either horizontally or vertically. A vertical image defaults to a vertical force passing through it. The line of gravity is larger than the horizon that holds it back. We will do the reading from top to bottom, so there will be a gravity effect. In the horizontal…

Strengths On the blank page there are dots that multiply the strength of the elements we add on them. The center of the sheet is the most obvious, but near each corner of the paper, forces also occur. If I add a crepe element in the center, but not in it, I immediately notice a…

Balance I suppose it’s a direct consequence of gravity. In Art and Visual Perception, Rudol Areim talks about the need of the human eye to find balance in the images it sees. Don’t we seek that balance in everything we do in life? In our lives, we seek (or should) surround ourselves with things that…

Gravity I had never stopped to think about the influence that gravity has on human art. Our whole life is conditioned by gravity. Because it is so dominant in our existence, we have it fully assimilated. Gravity dominates our lives. This creates a predisposition to see a depicted object, with its normal position. If we…

Pre-existing elements in the image Contrary to everything I’ve thought all my life, a blank sheet of paper is not empty. There are elements in it that, although they are invisible, are waiting for us to add the first stroke on the sheet to show their power. Once you know about its existence, you never…

Choosing My Poetry Obviously, there are several poems. How much? Hundreds? Thousands? Million? Surely, there is one for every person, but also, unfortunately, we don’t see one for every person. There are people who dedicate themselves to following the poetry of others, thinking that by following that path, they will find their own. Or even…

Is poetry knowing how to draw? I guess the answer is yes. You can create an image just by drawing well. A drawing can contain a beauty that completes a sensation, but probably, even behind these cases, there is information that implicitly indicates beauty, sensuality, harmony, balance… But I’m missing something. It’s not what I’m…

What is poetry in the image? Poetry, then, would be the decisions that the writer of the image makes, the way he chooses to tell. How it converts information from a sentence into verse. This is how we distinguish what we tell from how we count. Poetry can be everything. Colors, shapes, spaces, representations, omissions.…

Explicit or Implicit Information The information may be explicit or implicit. The explicit one is what we see. It is born from the words we see in an image. Implicit information is information that is not represented by any specific element but arises from relationships between those elements. We can have a character walking. Either…