Autistic or Artisitc ? A shared sense of balance / proportion ?

[dee]

I have survived as an Interior Designer by dee-fault ...

I sense that a space is unhappy - and I fix it 'till my ASdee isn't screaming

This is as sensitive as anxiety in a black and white restaurant with something being very '' wrong '' - which I tuned into as a red fire bell which screamed to be noted ...

Temple Grandin a well known autistic , designs cattle slaughter houses in USA so that the cows are not traumatised [ and damaged ] in the process

You can imagine in bull headed [ pun ] USA , talk of making it happier for cows did not go down too well - 'specially from an Autistic WOMAN !

But it works ... and money is saved in time and damage to the stock .

She says she understands the cattle ... but this is more what normals '' see '' ...

What is really happening is that what spooks the cattle , spooks her [ as it would me ] - on a sublimal raw level below rational ...

Unlike cows , however , she is able to work out the how and why and eliminate , make comfortable , the situation ... as I do with spaces

I can't innovate , but can adapt and mimic - it's like millions of recordings in my head and I just pick one ... but my colleagues can't quite get this !

And photography ? Well , the fact is that working with clients or Designer colleagues , my crazee '' making happy '' works ... so others must somehow share this sense of right / wrong - comfortable / not comfortable ...

So , does this apply to picture too ? I have found that those that are right to me , tend to be prefered by others ...

Are we tuned to a certain aesthetic ? Certainly , I can translate that happy / not happy sense to the elements of my considered snapshots , though I lack the ability to keep focused on the tech aspects ...

crazee dee

 

[williams473]

Yes I think most of us share a sense of balance and proportion, and that we get this directly from Nature, or our Creator. As we now know, Nature is structured down to the molecular level - shape, balance and structure is a part of us in a very real sense and I think we recognize it when we see it reflected in the things we look at. Harmony "feels" good visually. Even when we try to create disharmony in Art, we are consciously structuring the image to do so, so we must know what harmony looks like in the first place. It is interesting that your condition makes you especially sensitive to an apparent lack of order, and compels you to organize.

I also wonder how much a group consciousness plays into this sense - was the "discovery" of the Golden Mean, the rule of Thirds simply a recognition of what we always inherently knew, but we lacked the motor skills to express until we became civilized? Did we learn this sense, or are we just naturally gravitating to order the same way Nature naturally orders itself?

 

[Dektol Dan]

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An Old Tale Told By Idiots

Yes I think most of us share a sense of balance and proportion, and that we get this directly from Nature, or our Creator. As we now know, Nature is structured down to the molecular level - shape, balance and structure is a part of us in a very real sense and I think we recognize it when we see it reflected in the things we look at. Harmony "feels" good visually. Even when we try to create disharmony in Art, we are consciously structuring the image to do so, so we must know what harmony looks like in the first place. It is interesting that your condition makes you especially sensitive to an apparent lack of order, and compels you to organize.

I also wonder how much a group consciousness plays into this sense - was the "discovery" of the Golden Mean, the rule of Thirds simply a recognition of what we always inherently knew, but we lacked the motor skills to express until we became civilized? Did we learn this sense, or are we just naturally gravitating to order the same way Nature naturally orders itself?

I completely agree that it is built in. My hobby and life long pursuit is finding examples of the Pythagorean mathematical relationships nature. I'm not alone in this hobby. It's found in the double helix in DNA to electron clouds ind the atom (at least Fermi thought so). Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land was right 50 years ago as it is today.

I apply it to color in visual art the same way it is applied to harmony in music. I'm crazy enough to think it is you and you are it.

What composition is is just selective themes based on the same mathematical relationships.

 

[dee]

Thanks guys - ASdee sometimes can't work out what is crazee or Ok !
dee

 

[Chris101]

... Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land was right 50 years ago as it is today. ...

I remember being entranced by that movie in seventh grade!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=CNFOvOJZoWw

 

[Gabriel M.A.]

So , does this apply to picture too ? I have found that those that are right to me , tend to be prefered by others ...

Are we tuned to a certain aesthetic ? Certainly , I can translate that happy / not happy sense to the elements of my considered snapshots , though I lack the ability to keep focused on the tech aspects ...

You've touched on a very interesting observation. I've noticed that the ones who are very artistically-inclined have little "aspects" as the ones you've eluded to, and those who aren't can't understand how that can affect you. This is one key difference between those who don't care about how/why things happen, and those who'd rather do it "right".

"Right", of course, depends on who you're asking.

 

[retnull]

Dee, that's a pretty amazing post -- thanks for expressing your unique outlook.

There really is just too much to see / be aware of, in this world. Most people forget, because they use only the bare minimum of perception required to survive. It makes action easier. For those who are aware of things-that aren't-often-seen...very beneficial to consider it a gift, but as we know, it sometimes can make ordinary actions more difficult.

Hats off to you.