Astronavigation
“ATRIUM–ASTRONAVIGATION”.
Drawings and diagrams for coloring and playing
An interactive art-project
Authors:
Sergey de Rocambole,
Anna Nikolaeva
“Atrium–Astronavigation” is an album of drawings and alphabetic matrices for coloring and for playing with alphabets and sign systems. It is a developmental game for children and some adults.
The album introduces a range of subtle concepts through an active play with drawings and tables, rather than through explanations and descriptions. The initiation of creative parts of consciousness arises in the process of such activities as coloring the drawings, arranging graphemes into alphabetic matrices and picking up colors for them. As a result, children intensify their creative abilities: they begin to compose stories, their own drawings become more interesting, and much more.
The “Atrium–Astronavigation” album has two parts: the first part consists of biomorphic drawings and the second part includes a set of matrices with different number of cells, which one can fill with various alphabets and sign systems. For example, graphemes or signs can be arranged within the matrices into the so called magic squares, which are traditionally associated with planets corresponding to the paths of the classical seven-circuit labyrinth.
The guidelines for coloring the drawings are very simple: you take a drawing and color it freely, starting from any point—using pencils, markers, felt-tip pens, wax crayons, watercolor, acrylic paints, or gouache—whichever is more convenient. In the process drawing, a person discovers individual rules and sequences for coloring the drawing and its multiple elements. This activates the process of initiating and organizing personal creative skills and visions.
Crucially the guidelines for coloring are suggested by the internal structure of drawings as it is processed by the individual consciousness of the person coloring it. This leads to the activation of different levels of individual attention taking part in the creative decision-making. The interaction with this art object, helps to develope holistic, field-based perception of situations, and harmonize one's strategic and tactical cognitive activities.
The biomorphic drawings are designed according to a structure similar to the ones behind Tibetan thangkas and Christian icons. Comparable structures were explored in the works of Russian Constructivists of the early 20th century and in the works of contemporary analytical schools of plastic arts.
Следующая за биоморфными рисунками серия схем и алфавитных матриц является в некотором роде продолжением и углублением на другом уровне пониманий, возникающих в процессе раскрашивания рисунков первой части. В этой части альбома приведены алфавитные матрицы / матрицы графем. Эти же алфавитные матрицы можно рассматривать как "магические квадраты планет", традиционно связанные с трассами классического лабиринта.
Сам лабиринт как первичный и фундаментальный артефакт Пути Предписаний является прежде всего воплощенным ритуалом, проторитуалом, ритуалом ритуалов — человек, вошедший в классический лабиринт, в силу самой конструкции тропинки движется ритуальным образом. И тут важно понимать, что наиболее существенной особенностью мифических сюжетов и образов, переведенных на язык ритуала, становится то, что они соединяют личность со сверхличностными силами и целями.
Играть с алфавитными матрицами просто – можно вписывать в них знаки и буквы родного языка, других известных языков, находить остроумные способы полевого расположения букв-графем, обозначающих гласные и согласные звуки, играть с цветом букв и знаков, с фоновыми конструкциями матриц.
