Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See

Description via Amazon. Native Places is a collection of sixty-four watercolor sketches paired with mini-essays about architecture, landscape, everyday objects, and nature. The sketches relate the delight found in ordinary places. The short essays, rather than repeat what is visible in the sketch, illustrate ideas and thoughts sparked by that image and offer a fresh interpretation of ordinary things. The goal of Native Places is, in part, to transform the way we see. Through its pages, barns become a guidebook to crops and weather; a country church is redolent of the struggle for civil rights and human dignity; a highway rest stop offers a glimpse of egalitarian society. Also exploring the belief that hand drawing and writing are not obsolete skills, both disciplines offer us the opportunity to develop a natural grace in the way we view the world and take part in it.

  • ISBN

    9781940743455
  • Title

    Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See
  • Author

    Frank Harmon
  • Publisher

    ORO Editions
  • Publication year

    2018
  • Binding

    Hardcover
  • Language

    English

Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See

Cite: "Native Places: Drawing as a Way to See" 20 Aug 2018. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/923563/native-places-drawing-as-a-way-to-see> ISSN 0719-8884

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