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Friday, September 8, 2017
Quatrain #34: Quadrivium
Literally, a place where four roads meet. A quadrivium is also defined as being a course that was offered at medieval universities in which students learned the four mathematical arts: arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music.
In virtually any photography course rudimentary forms of math are used to calculate exposure values with geometric sequences and fractions; composition & design strategies are routinely studied which are riven with simple principles of geometry; and the study of various forms of light reveal its spectral color properties, in addition to practicing observations of astronomic objects — the sun & moon are popular favorites. In regard to the music aspect, well that’s a form of poetry, so let’s equate that to the expression of all of these technical things that manifest in the visual poetry of photographs. To get to my point, a photography course easily meets and exceeds the definition of a quadrivium: interdisciplinary practices.
In virtually any photography course rudimentary forms of math are used to calculate exposure values with geometric sequences and fractions; composition & design strategies are routinely studied which are riven with simple principles of geometry; and the study of various forms of light reveal its spectral color properties, in addition to practicing observations of astronomic objects — the sun & moon are popular favorites. In regard to the music aspect, well that’s a form of poetry, so let’s equate that to the expression of all of these technical things that manifest in the visual poetry of photographs. To get to my point, a photography course easily meets and exceeds the definition of a quadrivium: interdisciplinary practices.
Friday, September 1, 2017
Quatrain #33: Échelle Européenne
After taking a three-week tour to Europe recently, the perceptions brought home are multi-layered, and intricate. But
most of all, what I think about is scale. I've been to big cities before, with
big buildings, big spaces, and yes, sprawl as far as the eye can see, studded
dense with urban constructs. There is something however that makes me blink and
do a double take in Europe, and that's about the size of some the architectural
specimens visible there. Even on 21st-century terms, those folks who designed
and hewed were thinking big. No, strike that… I meant colossal. It is sublime
to not only stand amongst these wonders, but to think of being part of the
human family they have sung to for hundreds and in some cases, even a couple
thousand years.
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