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Thinking With Your Hands!

Thinking With Your Hands!. The Power & Beauty of a Line.

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Thinking With Your Hands!

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  1. Thinking With Your Hands! The Power & Beauty of a Line

  2. Everyone must leave something behind when he dies… . A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. • It doesn’t matter what you do … so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching… . The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime. • Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451

  3. Frank Wilson "The Hand" • “People are born resourceful and they become skillful and thoughtful when they genuinely care about what they are doing.” • The Hand Creates the Mind

  4. Two types of Hand Movement • PrehensileMovements - An object, fixed or free, is held by a gripping or pinching action between the digits and the palm. • Non-prehensile Movements - The whole hand includes pushing, lifting, tapping, and punching movements of the fingers

  5. The Grip • Precision Grip – employed when delicacy of handling and accuracy of instrumentation are essential • Power Grip – executed between the surface of the fingers and the palm with the thumb acting as a buttressing and reinforcing agent

  6. Practical Life & Visual Arts • Care of the Person • Personal Care & Habits • Opening & Closing • Grooming • Care of the Environment • Carrying • Cleaning • Polishing • Care of Plants • Food Preparation • Small Motor Precision • Pouring – Dry & Wet • Squeezing • Twisting • Hammering • Visual Arts • Collage • Clay work • Textile Arts • Painting • Printmaking • Sculpture

  7. John Napier "Hands" • “When the hand is at rest, the face is at rest; but a lively hand is the product of a lively mind. The involvement of the hand can be seen in the face, which is in itself a sort of mirror to the mind.” Hands by Leonardo da Vinci

  8. NEGOTIATING GRASP

  9. THINKING WITH THEIR HANDS

  10. A Strong & Beautiful Hand Hand ~ Eye ~ Body ~ Mind ~ Heart

  11. The Line POWER Beauty • Muscular Control • Written Composition • Accuracy • Forms of Composition • The Art of Calligraphy • Drawing

  12. Steven Pinker Writing is a relative new comer and only appeared in a small number of places on Earth. Unlike spoken language, a writing system is not something that nature gives us.

  13. Handwriting in a digital age? • “The process of text production is radically different, cognitively and phenomenologicaly in a print-writing environment compared to a digital environment.”

  14. Handwriting & Keyboarding • Unimanualvs bimanual • Slow process vs quicker process • Visual concentration on tip of pen vs concentration on keys and monitor • Shapes each letter vs readymade letters • Attention to grammar and spelling vs readymade software

  15. The Hand Creates the Mind • Exercises • Rain • Swirls • Waterfall • Necklaces • Clusters • A, B, C’s • Zentangles • Dots • Border • Strings • Tangle Patterns • Shading

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