What we can learn from Cubist artists.

As writers, we look at relationships between things and ourselves, in an effort to bring our readers into the world we create.

As an artist, I saw those relationships in colors and now visualize them in order to find the most visual way to describe them.

In teaching art, I was often asked to explain cubism. It is when an artist depicts the totality of possible views, from all around an object or person, as if you could see them all at once.

I think this is a good way to think about what you wish to describe in your writing. Close your eyes and see your world, character or setting from every angle. Walk all around it. Fly over it and crawl under it and then find the best view to describe it from.