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I can see the dice. I understand its proportion and size. I can identify a right angle, parallel lines and perpendicular faces. I can visuallise a structure that surrounds and encomposes my object.

How should I represent this three dimentional object and its environment? How do I draw or paint what I see?

Conventionally, I could choose to use a flat surface or piece of paper, plotting a horizontal, horizon line and intersecting straight lines radiating from various vanishing points. These lines forming a structure to hang my object to, my own perspective structure. In many ways like a maths student using a piece of graph paper.

What happens beyond my piece of paper? How do I use these rules to draw the rest of my environment? Where do all the lines go? Can I really turn three dimensions into two? What other solution could I use? Who said all lines needed to be straight? Who said to use a flat surface?

This questioning has opened my eyes to the infinite number of potential artistic opportunities available through alternative perspective structures. It has forced me to understand the base foundation of perspective, question its laws, explore its limitations, and now expand and create alternatives. Questions spark journeys, they drive us forward, fuelling our desire to explore, finding answers along the way and generating new questions.

As individuals we see the world in which we live in our own unique way, if asked to draw or paint our surroundings we would produce many different variations, using different techniques and styles. We may consider various media and styles of application, but do we consider the perspective structure?

In the example above the artist used a perspective structure to represent what he/she saw, a perspective technique using straight lines radiating from vanishing points, probably without giving it to much thought. Did they have a choice? Are there any alternatives?

Of course the answer is yes. We don't have to always follow convention. The perspective structure, or lack of it, is a key foundation in any picture. It is an artistic decision which many artists overlook. We can choose to represent what we see in an infinite number or ways, using an infinite number of perspective structures, therefore multiplying our artistic options.

Please check out my 'Glued to the grid' pages to find out more about perspective structure.