Dr. Walter Weimer, who taught a history of psychology course while I was an undergraduate at PennState, was very straightforward in his assertion that history is never boring. Certain texts, he stated, will often fail to stimulate interest in the subject matter, and certain professors are quite

People approach writing from a traditional point of view because the very term writing implies letters into words, words into sentences, and sentences into paragraphs. We propose that there are many forms of writing and traditional writing is only one of them. Scientists write formulas and draw molecular representa-tions. Musicians compose using musical scores. Mathematicians write equations and construct geometric drawings. Choreographers use the system of labanotation to record movement. The most obvious to us is the drawing of images, which we believe to one of the most primal forms of human language. In this paper, we will discuss how the artist uses drawing as a form of communication of ideas. From what seemed to be unrelated fields, we, an artist and educator, met one afternoon to view and discuss a piece of the artist’s sculpture. To explain the method of construction, the artist