11″ x 14″
The more I do these musician drawings, I think I’m still putting in too much information. The eye can figure out how the bodies and space fits together without much info. I remember reading John Berger’s writings about transcribing radio transmissions during WWII and how the mind can create (even with flaws) a whole image or idea from only a few staticky scraps. And then there’s this that I’ve seen floating around the internet for years:
Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn’t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef, but the wrod as a wlohe.
I actually read faster when the letters are all scrambled like this…I can feel my eye stopping, stuttering along each word in the first paragraph, but in the second paragraph there is no hesitation.
For similar reasons I wear my watch upside down – I am thrown out of the mode of counting the hash marks and “intuit” the message of the timepiece almost instantly.
I would be curious to know the effects of this writing on the dyslexic. Dan?
that’s actually almost troubling. i read it without even the slightest hesitation. and, what i noticed is that the internal voice (which is mine) that i “hear” when i read did not speak when i read that paragraph.