Perspective

The year was 2007, the 23rd of October when the internet broke out in a huge debate when a meme depicting two men arguing over a figure drawn on the ground which could either be a 6 or a 9. This image represented the idea of perspective and relativism showing that without context either one of their claims could have been correct depending on how you look at it. Which brings me to the lesson we had with Mr. Mark based on perspective a technique for representing three-dimensional space on a flat surface, Similar to the meme one could argue that three-dimensional drawings are still two-dimensional as they are on a flat surface but that's a conversation for another day. This class felt like a magic show with the class being filled with ouus and ahhhs at the sight of Mr. Mark turning the simple line into objects that could actually be in the same room as us or creating rooms that make you feel drawn to enter into. During the lesson we learned to draw boxes from the vanishing points on the horizon line. It seems simple right-wrong it was a tedious task that needed focus and understanding of the box anatomy because the minute the box flipped and it did not make sense, it meant the rules on perspective were not respected and we had to start again. So unlike the meme with either number being correct, a perspective drawing needs to make the same sense it would if it was looked at from a different perspective.