While participating in TET01 in Prague, including local and long distance travelling and some sightseeing associated with that participation, I drew 48 drawings of persons I observed and interacted with. My intention in making the
drawings, aside from the creative fun of doing so, was to use them to create a website about the experience that would be generally revelatory and informative to those browsing it. The source of my belief that this would be achieveable springs from prior experiences and presuppositions which I can only briefly suggest here. Of course any final confirmation that the site is indeed revelatory and informative can only come from browsing the site, and visitors are encouraged to express their finding to me via the Comments link found at the bottom of every page. In any case, a bit of background may be helpful and is offered here and on two additional pages (first two links below).
First, in doing about 4000 sketches and drawings in the four years preceding TET01, and studing the art of others in many museums in New York and elsewhere, I became increasingly convinced that drawn images are revelatory of the people drawn, of the events and encounters involved,
and of the artist's understanding of both. Second, in travelling about the world frequently in the last decade of the 20th Century, I also came to see sketching as a tool to explore global communication, because, like music, sketched images can communicate across language and other cultural barriers. Nothing therefore seems more appropriate than a sketched reflection of an international conference like TET01, the participants of which come from many countries. Third, since the travel involved reflects the global change that underlies the very reason for such a meeting, it is appropriate in any sketch-based site about the meeting to include drawings of people observed in transit, on the trip to, on the local commutes during, and on the return trip from that meeting. Fourth, given global access to websites through the internet, no medium could be more appropriate for distributing the sketched reflection of this globally oriented technology in education conference than a website. Finally, implementation as a website allows the ideas presupposed to be explored and examined further, through hyperlinks (1) to other pages here (see Encounters and events as life-defining and Images as records of encounters and events below), and (2) to several related earlier sites I have created, which explore the power of drawings to visually record other human encounters (see other, analogous Taylor webberies below).
