Estratégias diagramáticas na criação gráfica: disseminação e convergência

Diagrammatic strategies in graphic creation: dissemination and convergence

Abstract

This article presents a review on the model of creation in the practice of visual arts, architecture and design. This model is translated into the graphic process related to preparation of a final work and consisting on a wide variety of drawings, photographs, annotations and objects. Thus, this review proposes that the graphic process is based on a diagrammatic spatiality, where the relational nature of the different elements of the process is valued as the basic motivation and structure of the main concept. From this diagrammatic or relational nature, results a dynamic of actions and decisions with complementarity relations between dissemination and convergence. This process can be expansive and without defined borders, and also, synthetic and assertive, tending to a solution or final form. Its diagrammatic spatiality and its disseminating or convergent dynamics finally result in a constructive and fragmentary materiality, composed by hybrid and ephemeral sets of materials: drawings, clippings, photographs, maps, collages, texts, samples, objects. The graphic process works as an absorbent surface where the numerous personal and collective references are layered. These materials make up a body of elements that continuously changes from project to project, such as the repetition of a cycle, where each iteration transforms and adapts previous ideas. In this sense, creation does not result from a fundamental originality, an idea from nothing or pure inspiration, but rather from the interaction and participation of the author within a constant stream of references and elements.