9/1/2023 0 Comments Doodles aestheticUnlike a well-formed sentence where a set of words is arranged into meaningful information, these small pictorial units are not grouped into higher organisational units, neither as aesthetic information nor as semantic information. The small images occupy this space more or less evenly but they bear little meaningful relation to each other, except for some alignment of images on a slight diagonal on the left-hand page. It is quite detailed, with a variety of marks and shapes, but with little depth. This image has a roughly uniform distribution of ink to page. We can look at this in terms of visual complexity. ![]() There’s also an ‘alphabetti spaghetti’ game – every letter is hidden somewhere amongst the doodles. There are fractals, references to music, literature, philosophy and religion, and lots of biological things: insects, a cross-section of a duck, yeast cells, snake skull, locust, crab, mice, thylacine, dandelion seeds. ![]() It’s funny to see these old images again. They’re drawn in the back pages of the lab notebook that was used to record the CO2 content of samples of beer, and they probably date from around 1999 to 2001 when the brewery closed. It’s no work of art, just a photocopy of some doodles that I did during quiet periods when I was working in the laboratory at Mansfield Brewery. A friend who I went to art college with found some of my old artwork recently, which I didn’t even know she had.
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