# Bonsai Drawing Series – Perception

- Link: https://www.reekersart.com/bonsai-drawing-series-perception/
- Published: 2020-08-13T18:16:45+00:00
- Author: reekersart

Instructional video on understanding Perception in Bonsai Drawing

Perception is a subject studied by Philosophers and Artist throughout the ages. 
Maurice Merleau-Ponty in his book ‘Phenomenology of Perception’ writes how Perception
is the background of experience.  Artist looks at Perception as a relationship between
what we see and a clear understanding of that experience; in our case the viewing
of a Bonsai Tree.  In this video I take on that subject of Perception and how it
can help you understand ‘what you see’ and translate that to a drawing descriptively
and clearly.

One way of understanding “Perception” is to explore the phenomenon on how we see
an object and how we interpret it in space.  As a child we draw the world flat and
symbolically, whereas when we mature, and experience the world 3-dimensionally, 
we begin to “describe” the world more in terms of space; this is reflected in how
we approach drawing.  The drawings created by the child is therefore much different
that of an adult.

This video illustrates that they’re learnable tools that can help us define a descriptive
space such that overlapping items, removing ambiguity, detailing and value shifting
in the motif can better illustrate the tree we are drawing in a mature way. 

I sincerely hope this video clarifies your understanding of Perception in drawing
and furthers your interest in our goal to help accurately draw your Bonsai tree.
Most importantly further your enjoyment of the beautiful Art of Bonsai.