Senses Working Overtime

Wednesday, October 6, 2004

In Carnet de Voyage, Craig Thompson’s travel journal through France, Barcelona, and Morocco, he stays with a family in the Alps whose dinners are like banquet feasts of cheese, crepes, fois gras, and fondue.  During the preparation of dinner, one of the family members explains, “Eating is the only experience, other than making love, that exercises all five senses.”

But, as someone who loves the smell of musty sketchbooks, woody pencils, and pungent ink, and who loves the sound of graphite tracing across a thick pad of toothy paper, and as someone who chews on pen lids and reshapes his sable brushes with his mouth, I believe that drawing is also an experience in which I benefit from all my senses.

So take that, food and sex!


Comments

10-7-04 · 10:06 am

patricia says:

Damn right!

I’m a very tactile person. I LOVE the feel of a Windsor Newton brush dipped in ink, gliding on paper. Drawing and painting is VERY sexy.
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10-7-04 · 12:09 pm

Joe says:

“Toothy?” Who are you? Kybartas?

10-7-04 · 1:30 pm

Robot Johnny says:

Hahahahaha!!

10-8-04 · 9:23 am

mcs says:

Sitting infront of a computer all day. I won’t tell you what I find sexy, no wait I will, its this:
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10-8-04 · 11:15 pm

patricia says:

mcs, you sound like my father, who was a programmer for IBM for over 30 years. He tried to teach me binary code when I was about 8, but I guess I just didn’t have the passion for it. Too busy gettin’ all sexy with my crayons.

10-11-04 · 3:34 pm

metalhero says:

I thought the point wasn’t that drawing was sexy but that drawing/graphic design took THAT and gave it to food and sex. THAT being something derogatory!

10-13-04 · 9:23 am

eliane says:

Why choose? I want art, food and sex.