Buddhist Monk on Drawing.

He taught me today that to draw, is to draw from the structure first.

First: Plan.
Second: Section.
Third: Detail.
Then elevation last.

Foundation plan first,then go upwards though the building. Strada by strada.

So simple. So archaic. It's beautiful.

I only know how to draw the skin.




The Greek were obsessed with the body, the cloth that draped over the statues always accentuated the body underneath, whereas the Hindu statues were always about the skin. The Hindu statues depicted voluptuous bodies, but did not care about the structure, the bones and the muscles... The bodies were so round, it was all about the smoothness of the skin.

The Greeks always drew the structure from outside. From the skin inwards.

I don't know what it's like to draw from the structure outward. It seems false... Something too obvious to draw the structure.

Gordon Matta Clark. Draw a section to understand the structure. Drawing is cutting to him.

Rem Koolhas interchanged plans and sections. He liberated sections. The free section... not the free plan.

Layering - Plans - inside to outside - self to society - introversion to extraversion
Cutting - Section - 6th dimension - time - performance.