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Image Dialogues
An ongoing series of short exercises, each examining one aspect of visual language — how shapes enter into relationship with one another. Each worksheet stands on its own.
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Image Dialogues · Worksheet Who Is the Dot Talking To?An exercise on dot, plane and encounter: a single dot talks to the whole plane. What changes when a second, third or tenth one joins it? With a variation using dots you can move. (PDF, 3 pages)
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Image Dialogues · Worksheet Closeness, Distance, and the Space In BetweenAn exercise about the moment when a second shape becomes a counterpart: how does a pictorial relationship change when you vary the distance between two shapes? With three examples. (PDF, 2 pages)
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Image Dialogues · Worksheet What Responds to What Is Already There?An exercise in connecting, resisting and responding: you place two shapes and respond with a single action — connect, separate, repeat, overlap. With three examples. (PDF, 2 pages)
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Image Dialogues · Worksheet Can Emptiness Do Something?An exercise about the space between things: what happens to two shapes when you first draw nothing into the space between them? With three examples. (PDF, 2 pages)