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INTRODUCTION8

Where We Begin

There is a fundamental drive in our human nature to make take in what is said. We are surrounded by drawings in
a mark. Children cannot be restrained from running across our daily lives, not just chosen pictures on our walls but
the pristine white lawn of newly fallen snow, inscribing every everywhere—maps, signs, graffiti, logos, packaging, and
fresh part of it with their eager scrapes and trails. Most adults patterns on our clothes. We are bombarded with linear and
still feel that certain exquisite pleasure on arriving at a beach tonal pictorial information, and we spend our lives reading it.
to find the tide out and the sand perfect, like a great canvas The sense of relief we may feel from the information overload
for them to mark. At home and at work we doodle, scrawling of modern commercial life when visiting a country in which
shapes and cartoons when on the telephone, in lectures, and we can no longer read every written word, is not afforded us
in meetings. Sometimes we draw because we are bored, but by drawing. Drawing is international, irreverent to language
more often because drawing actually helps us to focus and barriers. We can always read each others drawings.

"CAVE OF THE HANDS" silhouettes were drawn with earth pigments Cueva de las Marios, Rio
rubbed onto rock. They have a natural affinity
In this drawing, a great crowd is raising to many modern graffiti signatures. Pinturas
their hands in greeting, waving to us from
13,000-9500 bce
many thousands of yearsago.Theseancient