Luís Filipe Salgado Pereira Rodrigues
I have made drawings regularly since 2010, but I have had a
fascination for drawing mainly since 1986, when I was 15 years old. I
have several projects running at the same time, however I chose this
project because is the longer one.
The drawing process is not dissociable nor from the mathematics
neither from the aesthetics. In the drawing we record a quantity of
shapes or light or, in a largest sense, a quantity of visual
information. My aim is to find an aesthetical play of shapes, drawing
with an intuitive way of seeing the geometric figures that I pick from
the nature.
The process of learning to draw involves the exercise of intuitive
calculation where some shapes are compared to others and where the
parts of a shape are compared to the remaining parts. The meaning
of implicit proportion either in the drawing or in the observed
object is a measure of dimensions that are correlatively compared.
In the nature that proportionality has an organic reason; in our
thinking has a rational and sensible foundation. In both of them
there is a common mathematical relation.
These drawings have a rotational movement, ones inside the others,
in a rotary way toward a center direction, in a concentrically
way, and the shapes are similar and may describe spirals. The
result of these shapes is an artificial texture.
The process of learning to draw involves the exercise of an
intuitive and proportional calculation where some shapes are
compared with others. The meaning of the implicit proportion
either in the drawing or in the observed object is a measure of
dimensions that are correlatively compared. In the nature the
proportionality has an organic reason. In our mind the
proportionality has a rational explanation. But both of them have
a mathematical principle.
My drawings have a rotational movement, ones inside the others, in
a rotary way towards a center direction and the shapes are similar
and may describe spirals. The result is an artificial texture with
proprotional shapes with a mathematical and geometric order.