Looking Beyond

"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux.

You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension.

That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

D. H. Lawrence

I came across this quote in an old design magazine my mom had. D.H. Lawrence was an English author and poet, earning many enemies with his controversial opinion on matters. His quote regarding design, however, does not feel controversial to me; instead, it feels complex. I was instantly boggled by the quote, I did not know what to make of it; was D.H. Lawrence trying to say that a design is felt with every bone that makes up the human body? Because I for one have never looked at a piece of art and had my entire body react to it. In fact, I have never even gotten shivers looking a piece of art. I really think Lawrence was trying to say that we must look closer at designs in order to truly recognize what they are. The first impression of a design is a false interpretation of what it truly means, because art is a fourth dimension, and most of us only look to the third dimension of it. In order for one to truly achieve the feelings the artist tried to convey in their design, we as people must breathe the painting in... and then exhale.