Digital Koan II When I sketch a piece of architecture I do so by describing it to myself in language and math.  That corner fits together at such and such an angle, this length is just so much a proportion of that width and a specific ratio of the depth.  I can describe the vanishing point just as well or better than I can duplicate it, and describing it to myself is actually how I manage to draw it.  In fact, the little art history that I studied told me that humans never did get a grip on perspective until they grasped the math to describe it.  Drawing a living creature is entirely different.  Now that is truly a right brain activity.  Description probably doesn't hurt, but it definitely does not help.  Maybe I lack the higher math required, such and such a parabola intersecting so and so a spheroid, on top of such and such a conic section, but I don't really think so.  Not only do I possess more higher math than that task probably requires, but my more lifelike images entirely lack that sort of understanding. They are genuinely attempts at duplication, not description.  Yes, that curve joins the other just so, and I wholeheartedly believe that the greatest visual artists see and read at the same time, but my reading is so strong that I must intentionally short-circuit it to see.  For now.  Perhaps I will acheive synthesis, but to be brutally frank at this point in my life I do not give a damn.  The effort it requires merely to survive is much easier for my left than my right.  Perhaps if my survival ever feels assured again I will be willing to make the functionally pointless effort.