26th August 2018
My usual day of rest, where I catch up with my bill paying, and general paperwork.
Colin has been planning to build a water feature in the garden, and had created some CAD drawings to show what it could look like.
This made me sad, he spent ages measuring, and trying to model a feature that is not regular shaped, and it never occurred to him to sketch something instead. Are we losing the art of using hand drawings to communicate ideas? I recently came across all my boxes of pencils, crayons, and paints, these were always my tools of imagination.
I found all my mechanical pencils from my drawing board days, the leads hadn’t drawn a line for twenty years but were still at the ready.
Everything is so uniform and soulless, even art is created on computer, there is no texture, no deep drawn brush strokes, you can’t see the passion on the screen.
Sometimes you don’t need a technical specification or CAD drawings for a water feature, you get some rocks and bloody build something.
Another Lifetime to go 