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Swan- The Intelligent Picture Book Part I. Single Line Drawings Of P S Remesh Chandran
P S Remesh Chandran
Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
Article Title Image By Moon Zigg. Graphics: Adobe SP.
First published: 8th Mar 2014
Which is the spiral galaxy and which is the sea wave?
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One maize choir equivalent, sunlit cloud could you
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Thank you dear reader, for
following this article to the end. We admire your patience. This is the First
Part of Swan- The Intelligent Picture Book’. There is a Second and a Third
Part which we will publish here soon.
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Pictures are from the archives of Sahyadri Books
& Bloom Books,Trivandrum .
Copyright rests with
P.S.Remesh Chandran.
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Swan- The Intelligent Picture Book Part I. Single Line Drawings Of P S Remesh Chandran
P S Remesh Chandran
Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum
Article Title Image By Moon Zigg. Graphics: Adobe SP.
First published: 8th Mar 2014
Single line drawings are
rare. Even those who attempted them in the past have not cared to publish them.
In our estimate, after going through publishing companies’ catalogues and what
internet search offers, no book of intelligent single line drawings has ever
appeared in print or digital media. We have a few such drawings in the Archives
of Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum ,
all done by Mr. P. S. Remesh Chandran in the Millennium Year 2000. We hereby
publish them in their original form.
Are you still working on the Swan?
Are
you still working on Swan?
Formatting this article
presented us with a problem. As the forty-plus images made the article lengthy,
we had to distribute the text evenly, in sections from beginning to end to
contain pictures. They were a continuous self-contained introduction and still
are.
Welcome.
Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books Trivandrum
We request readers therefore to
read them as such, as a continuous introduction of a few paragraphs, even
though they are apparently separated from each other and distributed distantly
with images. We request readers also not to connect them with the images.
Pictures reflect loveliness, flair and feelings of the
intellect, i.e., one's genius.
The text in this article in
no way is meant to explain images displayed above them. They are an independent
entity. It is better to read the text first and then view the images. We hope
our dignified and orthodox readers would forgive us for the inconvenience and
somewhat inappropriateness this may cause.
Brain is the first thing that's born and the last
thing that dies.
Single line drawings are very
easy to create. They are also called one line drawings. They are constituted
with a single stroke of the hand. Because of this simple structure of theirs
and also due to their limitations in their scope for expression, they are
usually created with pencils, pens, quills, crayons and wax, not with painting
brushes.
Swan- The Intelligent Picture Book.
Painting brushes need more
strokes of the human hand to finish a picture. They are usually meant to create
depth in a picture through colours. Paintings enjoy much freedom of the
movements of human hand. Single line drawings cannot take that much freedom or
privilege.
Which is the question and which is the answer? Please
turn the pages.
In a single line drawing, the
movement of human hand is limited to one single stroke and therefore the
movement of the mind also is limited. It is this limitation and barrier that we
break or bridge by incorporating script in a single line drawing. We know,
paintings do not have script in them generally.
The wave goes on through Life, Samadhi, Nirvana and
Moksha.
Leopold Stokowski, Pablo
Picasso, all have done single line drawings in their time. Some made an
external profile and filled in with continuous movements of a line to make
their picture. Some envisioned the end product in their mind and realized it on
the medium with a single stroke. Some just followed their crazy imagination and
spontaneity with their hand.
Which is the horn and where is the elephant?
We have gone through hundreds
of pictures classified under line drawings, out line drawings, one line drawings
and single line drawings. The majority of them, of what we had the opportunity
to see, were mostly interesting but not intelligent and stimulating generally.
We now have the opinion that Sahyadri’s pictures are unique and that is why we
dare release these pictures.
Which is the bugle and which is the pin?
We release these pictures as
such, without editing, colouring or any kind of beautification and polishing.
We know, once such things are done- the background print removed, lettering
projected well-cut in colours and lines traced in other neon colours- it would
add charm to these pages and make them magnificent to look at.
Which is the boat and which is the lamp with the
flame?
But we leave this remaining
task to gifted children all over the world, in the present and in future, who
surely will come across these pictures in their time. It is their pleasure to
do it. In their hands, with their craft, we hope, these pictures will fill up
themselves and stand up and please their young minds.
How many factions and how many lines?
Script in these pages may be
in differing and unreadable styles but making them out with the help of
pictures or making pictures out with the help of scripts is in itself a
rewarding exercise, to be practiced by readers so that their multi skills-
aesthetic as well as linguistic- may develop.
A cock brooding on an egg.
Sometimes, deciphering the
script would be the exercise. There are also pictures with no script, the
meaning of which are left to the common sense of readers. In such cases, the
artist and designer had either forgotten to include suggestive writings or had
nothing to write. Perhaps, he himself had not understood them. Anyway the
readers also, especially the young and brilliant ones, may want to add their
own meaningful script.
How many faces?
A few writings are in the
author’s native land Kerala’s Malayalam language and a very few other ones are
in the North India ’s language Hindi. But the
script is, generally, in English. There are a few others in the remaining two
parts of this book which have incorporated words from French and Tamil.
Lines cannot have a language
except one of emotions, appealing to intelligence. Sometimes there will not be
pictures but writings alone. They too are meant to convey something
intelligent, perhaps a coinage of phrases which, the author thinks, is
meaningful.
Which is the sun-flare and which is the crescent moon?
There are several pictures
from the author’s original diary excluded in this collection as they would be
totally irrelevant to an international audience. Some of them are fully in
regional languages and they depend more on script than lines to convey a
message. Many of them are tricky advertisement posters and displays for films
and books.
God sees the truth and sends waves.
Even though these pictures
have their position on their pages, they needn’t always be viewed as such, in
vertical positions. Often, rotating them on a computer will reveal their fuller
meaning or other meanings, if writings on the sides, above or below suggest so.
Sitting at ease the eastern way.
Skilled, patient viewers can
read them anyway, moving their heads to the desired position, even without
rotating pictures. It is safer to download and save pictures to your computer
and make a copy before rotating, as rotating them may alter some of their
properties.
Which is the alphabet hanging on the other?
Copying pictures to a
computer or a similar devise has also the advantage of being able to enlarge
them and read undecipherable script easily, which is one of the challenges we
want to pose before the readers through these pictures. Once they are in your computer,
you can start Photoshop and Picassa and do what you wish. Whatever you do, you
will be improving the picture.
The girl with the mirror. Back Cover Picture Of The
Swan.
Reading different and
illegible scripts is also a skill which we wish to impart to readers through
these pictures. Where the scripts are obscure, they can certainly be guessed with
the help of the lines and a little common sense. The lines and writings are
meant to supplement each other.
Artist, Script, Design Credits for the book The Swan.
We selected pictures
according to the date of their drawing rather than selecting them based on
theme or finery in perception. They stand as such- bare, unpolished and crude.
It’s the world’s interested future generations who are going to build on them.
How many claws in this serpent?
There may be good ones among
them and there may surely also be inferior ones. It is the reader who is to
judge on them, not us. Even though these pictures were made in the 2000s, the
idea of their publishing was thought about seriously only after a few years
later.
How many plantain petals?
This novel idea of a book was
first put before Lulu Publishers who encouraged us to finish this book early
and publish with them. Here is one mail from this worthy publisher. There were
others also who presented us with options.
A splash on the head or a flowery design?
We will discuss the many
publishing chances and scope for this kind of a book else where. This
introduction which is spread in the three parts of this book only aims to show
how these kinds of pictures can happen. Dear reader, from here onward, it would
be the author of this book who would be speaking to you:
Where is the bird and where is the swan?
You may ask why this
collection of pictures is termed an ‘intelligent picture book’. It is simply
because you can use it to gauge your own or another person’s intelligence
without the aid of anyone or anything else. Gauging another person’s intelligence
is a necessity human race has always faced. The tools which we can use to gauge
one’s intelligence and quickness of mind are but few. Even those tools which
are there are either not accessible to the ordinary citizens or unaffordable
for them.
Where is the sea and where is the lotus?
Each man responds to this
kind of pictures in correspondence with the level of his intelligence and
clarity and alertness of conscience. Dormant genius and intelligence can be
sparked up by quick glimpses of vision which the pictures may provide. Some may
never read the script, some may never connect the script with the pictures but
some skilled others will in no time read the script as well as connect them
with the pictures, in whichever positions the scripts are displayed.
An absurd question with a picture or an absurd picture
with a question?
As a general rule, the lesser
the time one takes to fully comprehend a picture, the better and clearer his
intelligence can be gauged to be. If you know what is there in a picture, you
can assess the intelligence of another person by gauging the time he or she
takes to comprehend the picture fully, without you needing being anywhere near
the higher level of his intelligence. If you are going to interview someone top
for your company, be ready with these pictures. And never take these suggestive
chapter headings with you. They will take away the suspense and deprive the
test of its spirit.
How many submarines are there, doing what?
Even though these pictures
were done in the 2000s, their publishing was not taken seriously until 2009,
the year of my beginning work in internet. When they were drawn, they were done
on pages of diaries and costlier books. I could have drawn them on plain paper
for I normally used criss-cross-type bond paper for all my writing.
Artful
Collection From Sahyadri Art Syndicate.
I knew someday these pictures
will have to be cleaned, their background of printed words painstakingly
removed and lines and pen-written letters traced in neon colours before sending
them to a decent press- needing the expertise of a professional talent. I am
not such a person and I do not have time to become one. What I wanted was that
without a professional touch, these drawings shall not go to a printing press.
Advertisement for the book Jalaja Padma Raaji or The Lotos Band.
Advertisement
For Jalaja Padma Raaji.
For a time, my dreams were
full of the book becoming a hit and millions and millions of copies being sold
all over the world. One certainly has the right to dream. But soon I came to
know that publishing a picture book, especially this kind of a book, was not
easy. For one thing, a book of single line drawings is not an accepted and
popular idea in the book publishing industry.
Can you follow this picture through the eyes?
For another, the pages of the
book were not done in exquisite colours, resembling beautiful neon displays in
a thoroughfare at night. Another factor against the marketability of the book
is, picture books are usually published for little children. Publishing picture
books for infants is a very large and lucrative industry indeed. ‘Swan’ does
not belong to this category. After one or two years, Lulu stopped reminding me
of the book. Even before that, I had stopped remembering it myself.
A cactus, spiral coil or which side of the fruit, the pine apple?
A cactus, spiral coil or which side of the fruit, the pine apple?
So that’s how this book came to
be. It was started accidentally by a whim of ethereal elements and completed
within a short period of time. Procrastination was in the publishing of the
book, not in completing it. As to the modus operandi of this book- how these
pictures were envisioned and how the script were conceived- I will discuss in
the second part of this book.
The sunrise and sunset as usual played outside.
I will discuss the hard
experiences and surprising retaliation from government I had to undergo after
completing this book in the third part, which experiences made me more
determined to release this book to the world though nothing anti-governmental
is contained in this book.
A mummy's head or a purda-clad woman with apron?
I must admit, some one dead
and gone- actually two- took hold my hands and drew these pictures for me,
though I was perfectly well aware of what they were doing through me. In those
times, though it was a hard experience to withstand emotionally and physically,
I did come up with this book.
Your Swan looks humpy. It is rejected.
There were not only pictures,
but songs, excellent stories, threads for films, full length films,
exhilarating discourses, all I spectatored in that times in the brain. How our
forefathers can forcefully enter our brain and present us with a multitude of
very interesting things to entertain us is a mystery indeed to many but not to
me now. It is a legacy of life for our forefathers to come and enter into our
brains, hide in our genes and express themselves to entertain us in times of
our isolation, sadness and penury. They know how to console their young ones in
times of need.
Brain is a very brilliant
thing indeed. In our dreams we can see full length colour feature films which
remain such vivid in memory for many years that we can draw them out in paper
or in celluloid later. The speeches we hear in daylight or in the darkness of
night from our brains are finer than the finest of orations we have ever heard
from the most brilliant speakers on stage.
Fill
Up The Flames And Find Out Who?
The songs we hear in our
brain can be captured on paper if we also get the respite and breathe-space to
capture them in the midst of that fine mental orchestra and they can be
recorded and made into gramophone records if we are equipped enough. It is a
wonder what strange and versatile things our bygone parents can do on us by
entering into our brains.
How many eels?
The only thing we have to
take care is, while listening to these fine orchestras in our brains, do not
stand there in the midst of the road but cross it safely also. Do not act with
your hands and legs and face expressions in the drama that’s going on as
prompted by our forefathers in the brain in the midst of people looking at us,
but keep control of your self and learn the trick of keeping dual levels of
brain activities.
Not a frog but a smudging donkey reversed.
Unless you do this, this
simultaneous performance in the physical world as well as in the psychic world,
your sanity will be questioned and you may even land in sanitariums. Thus you
will fail in doing justice to whoever is possessing you by failing in your
mission of expressing for them.
'The moving finger writes and having writ, moves on'.
They who enter our brains as
part of their right- we may me their sons and daughters and beloved neighbours-
have no physical barriers. They have no physique except ours which they seek,
to fulfill our combined mission for the betterment of human race. That is the
plan and schematics of life. In no moment in our life are we ever free of
manifestations of the continuing workings of generations of our departed
parents. The only thing that confuses us and which remains to be proved yet is,
if our future generations in the ether also are manifesting their actions in
us.
Which is the way out for the escapist?
The forbearance I felt in
those times is now past and today it’s a sweet memory. My mother stood by me in
those hard times and without her presence, kindness, ardence, and affection and
caring, I could not have withstood the confusion in those times which I could
reveal to no one due to its special nature. She is now no more and I dedicate
this book, ‘Swan- The Intelligent Picture Book’ to her sweet memory.
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Pictures are from the archives of Sahyadri Books
& Bloom Books,
P.S.Remesh Chandran.
_______________________________________
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Meet the author
PSRemeshChandra
Editor
of Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum .
Author of several books in English and in Malayalam. And also author of 'Swan,
The Intelligent Picture Book'.
Unmarried and single. Born and brought up in Nanniyode, a little village in the
Sahya Mountain
Valley in Trivandrum , Kerala. Mother University
educated and father British Council-trained Teacher. Matriculation with
Distinction and Pre Degree Studies with National Merit Scholarship.
Discontinued Diploma Studies in Electronics and entered Politics.
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