Originally Posted by
Sihing73
I would need to disagree with this in part: The form should provide the guide or reference for the application. While the application needs to be present, you need a starting point or frame of reference for that application. This reference is found in the form. Much like each writen language has to have a common reference of letters with which to form words.
Yes that's right forms are like the alphabet...
Originally Posted by
Sihing73
I think that as one explores the forms and begins to understand them on a deeper level than one will be able to dsicover new and different applications.
But this is backwards for the same reason why skilled authors don't study the alphabet or grammar "more deeply" to learn how to write better books, they write and read to learn how to write better.
Just like one doesn't study ping pong form to get a deeper understanding of ping pong one plays ping pong to do that.
Last edited by YungChun; 02-12-2011 at 11:40 PM.
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