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claim:to-make-a-lifelike-animal-we-have-to-make-the-animal-out-of-centers-not-by-copying-exactly

To make a lifelike animal, we have to make the animal out of centers, not by copying exactly.

Core argument that lifelike quality comes from the field of centers, not from naturalistic representation.

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Blue hair with purplish pink and subsequent abstract colors gave the wooden dolls a felt presence
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Using wild, abstract colors chosen solely to create a powerful field of centers resulted in dolls that evoke a deep feeling.

Concepts (2)

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Centers
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Primary entities of wholeness that arise from configurations and are activated in space; they have different levels of strength or coherence and are intensified by relationships with other centers.
field of centers
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The overall configuration of interrelated centers that constitutes a whole.

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To make a lifelike animal, we have to make the animal out of centers. If the centers are good centers, then the animal starts to get life.
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Succinct statement of the central thesis about ornament and animal figures.

Related by similarity (8)

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Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

The greater life in the animal comes from the field of centers which is created there, not from copying or 'realism'.claim0.843
Extension of the previous claim, tying life directly to centers.
The rewarding and life-enhancing nature of work comes into focus when the thing made has life, and the makers begin to change dramatically.claim0.772
To make a pond have life, we must have a clear inner feeling of what life in the pond will be like, beyond ecological knowledge.claim0.770
When I make something which has wholeness or life, I become more alive; when I make something dead, I become less alive.claim0.766
When the process is correct, the creation of life follows almost automatically, without effort.claim0.765
Only a deliberate process of creating being-like centers in built structure throughout the world encourages the world to become more alive.claim0.765
Proposition 4 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the normative and practical conclusion tying individual search for the true self to the creation of a living world.
Just make it nice at every spot, and life enters the structure.claim0.764
Practical maxim from teaching: attending to each spot's wonderfulness is the core of living design.
Centers themselves have life.claim0.764
One of the four key ideas, asserting that individual centers possess a degree of life.