How to raise awareness about the pre-language dimension of the physical presence in drawing?

Abstract

In addition to the dialogue with which the organism leads the outer world with the senses, during the drawing process there is an unarticulated pre-language link to the stimuli that comes from the "not visible" inner sensing body. The research question I have chosen to work with in the article is: How to raise awareness about the pre-language dimension of the physical presence in drawing? This is investigated in dialogue with Merleau-Ponty's thinking about body phenomenology, Derrida's view of the cartoonist as blind, psychologist Stern's thinking about vitality affects. Similarly, inspiration from researchers such as Petitmengin with its micro-phenomenological method, Berger's educational thinking and studies of the role of the body in scientific research and various authors of body cognition theory that emphasize the importance of the pre-language in thinking. The research question will also be highlighted from my experience as an artist and as a teacher at the Department of Landscape Architecture at NMBU.

Keywords: drawing, pre-language, bodily presence, body cognition, non-focal / distributed attention, distal and proximal stimuli, proprioception, body cognition, lived and living body, perception, perception schemata and the creative space