ISOM SYMBOLIC ART

Thursday, April 8, 2021

Recent digital design work (2021) using iPad and Procreate app.

Saturday, January 23, 2021

Tuesday, January 12, 2021

“The term doodle has had a negative connotation throughout history, at one point denoting a fool, then as a verb to swindle or ridicule. It was even used to describe a corrupt politician. Maybe that’s why today we think of doodling as a waste of time or a sign of boredom. But doodling is the first step in visual communications. “The purpose of visual language has always been to communicate ideas to others.” After all, weren’t the cave drawings just early doodles?”

http://www.globeuniversity.edu/blogs/college-life/the-importance-of-doodling/

A doodle is a drawing made while a person's attention is otherwise occupied. Doodles are simple drawings that can have concrete representational meaning or may just be abstract shapes.

Stereotypical examples of doodling are found in school notebooks, often in the margins, drawn by students daydreaming or losing interest during class.Other common examples of doodling are produced during long telephone conversations if a pen and paper are available.

Popular kinds of doodles include cartoon versions of teachers or companions in a school, famous TV or comic characters, invented fictional beings, landscapes, geometric shapes, patterns and textures.

According to a study published in the scientific journal Applied Cognitive Psychology, doodling can aid a person's memory by expending just enough energy to keep one from daydreaming, which demands a lot of the brain's processing power, as well as from not paying attention. Thus, it acts as a mediator between the spectrum of thinking too much or thinking too little and helps focus on the current situation. The study was done by Professor Jackie Andrade, of the School of Psychology at the University of Plymouth, who reported that doodlers in her experiment recalled 7.5 pieces of information (out of 16 total) on average, 29% more than the average of 5.8 recalled by the control group made of non-doodlers.

Monday, January 11, 2021

ASEMIC MARKER

Saturday, January 9, 2021

Codex Isom negative images.

Ma is a Japanese word which can be roughly translated as "gap", "space", "pause" or "the space between two structural parts." The spatial ideais experienced progressively through intervals of spatial designation. In Japanese, ma, the word for space, suggests interval. It is best described as a consciousness of place, not in the sense of an enclosed three-dimensional entity, but rather the simultaneous awareness of form and non-form deriving from an intensification of vision.

Ma is not something that is created by compositional elements; it is the thing that takes place in the imagination of the human who experiences these elements. Therefore ma can be defined as experiential place understood with emphasis on interval.

Marshall McLuhan described Ma as: “the complex network of relationships between people and objects.

Thirty spokes meet in the hub,

but the empty space between them

is the essence of the wheel.

Pots are formed from clay,

but the empty space between it

is the essence of the pot.

Walls with windows and doors form the house,

but the empty space within it

is the essence of the house.

Lao Tse

CODEX ISOM digital images.
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"Things hidden in my head" Copyright 2013 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.

Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Celestial chart

“A hidden spark of the dream sleeps

In the forest and waits

In the celestial spheres of the brain.”

― Dejan Stojanovic, Circling: 1978-1987

Monday, January 4, 2021

New Stickers

I am always looking for ways to democratize my art. Preparing art for sale and marketing is very expensive. I am considering printing stickers. They are inexpensive and very popular on the internet. Currently, I am getting bids and distribution ideas. Here are two early examples of 3”x3"designs.

"Things hidden in my head" Copyright 2013 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.

Saturday, January 2, 2021

Covid series print 2020.

Signed, numbered, limited edition Giclee prints of most of the art posted on this blog are available at https://www.graficafinearts.com/. Call Lynn Bozzay for a quote. Archival framing also available.