Line and Space

Ever since week 5 assignment was assigned, I began to observe my surroundings more and more. I realized that we are surrounded by lines and space everywhere. From our homes bathrooms, rooms, living rooms, to the forests trees, bushes, and bark on the trees, it is everywhere. We see analytic lines all the time. An example would be a building in down town. The line is precise, controlled, mathematically rigorous, and rationally organized. The contractors have to make precise measurements in order to build the buildings. I also realized as I was playing football that there is an implied lines everywhere. In order to run a route in football, one has to know where he running to. So a route that I ran is I had to run a straight line, then run out at a 90 degree angle, which I had to follow. Then as I turned around to catch the football, the quarterback looked right at me to show that the ball was going to go straight towards me, which also implied a straight line.

We can see linear perspective at work everywhere we go. We see two-point linear perspective, which has more than one vanishing point in when we are walking down the street. If you are walking in the middle of the street and there is a row of houses on each side of you and cannot see where the homes stop, then that’s the linear perspective at work. We can see atmospheric lines when we are on the beech and the sun is setting or when we are snowboarding in the mountains. The haze from the water blurs the sunset a little bit, and the snow drizzle makes a blur on the mountains when you are riding down the slopes. I have seen many contour lines lately, many in peoples clothing in the gym. Some people who work out at the gym sometimes where tight or loose shirts. One can see if someone is fit or unfit if wearing a loose shirt because of the contour lines. If one is bigger, obviously the shirts contour lines will show the round curves, but if one is not, then it would be a different curve.