I sometimes feel like I have spent a whole week avoiding something without being able to put a finger on what I’m avoiding, or why, or even whether it is even a definable thing or not. This feeling is strongest when I’m at a low point and struggling to get things done. It’s weakest if…
Chapter 3 of Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain is all about the right/left differences in the brain. The R-mode and L-mode thinking were familiar to me: left is analytical, literal, symbolic, rational, linear; right is synthetic, analogic, spatial, intuitive. Where I got more interested is the relation between left/right handedness and left/right…
This trail of interest series is my experiment to document what catches my interest or inspires me, daily or near-daily. The drawing above is my “pre-instruction” self portrait, part of the first exercise in the book Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain by Betty Edwards. It’s a better drawing than I expected it…