1 00:00:01,910 --> 00:00:07,580 Lesson seven, Field Notes. Field Notes, the drawings that artists, 2 00:00:07,580 --> 00:00:12,860 designers, inventors make when they're really just walking through their normal 3 00:00:12,860 --> 00:00:18,050 round of life. They've usually made into notebooks, convenient scraps of paper 4 00:00:18,050 --> 00:00:23,270 and on the back of the proverbial envelope there. There's nothing clever 5 00:00:23,270 --> 00:00:29,210 about Field Notes. They tie together writing, mathematics 6 00:00:29,210 --> 00:00:34,230 and drawing, and they all aids to the memory. I mean, 7 00:00:34,230 --> 00:00:39,980 on this drawing, it tells us when it was made, it was made in April where it was made. It was made 8 00:00:39,980 --> 00:00:45,350 in Brentwood, which is Ruskin's house in the light district. It tells us how long the snake 9 00:00:45,350 --> 00:00:50,360 is that he drew. It says it's 18 inches. It also has a little poetic component, which says 10 00:00:50,360 --> 00:00:55,430 it's like the decoration on a suit of armour. And so we get this 11 00:00:55,430 --> 00:01:00,740 big picture building up of a man going for a walk, finding maybe a dead snake, 12 00:01:00,740 --> 00:01:05,750 maybe seeing a live one and recording its pattern, the pattern on 13 00:01:05,750 --> 00:01:11,180 its back, its its general appearance. It's not a piece of art. It's a note. 14 00:01:11,180 --> 00:01:16,310 It's a record. It's using writing and drawing to as an aid to 15 00:01:16,310 --> 00:01:21,410 memory. It goes into a little book. It's put into his pocket and he takes it home, maybe never 16 00:01:21,410 --> 00:01:26,660 looks at it again, maybe uses it as the beginning of a painting or a drawing or a design 17 00:01:26,660 --> 00:01:31,730 for a fabric. What is most important about these drawings 18 00:01:31,730 --> 00:01:36,920 is that they are from the heart. They're not display pieces. 19 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:47,000 They are literally just AIDS to the memory. They are like pages in a journal.