flew airport codes gla ams to camp on coziest waterway that i know (as cosmic clock struck summer solstice). after battle with bowl of cherries, natalie
noted child looked like one who'd recently taken down a prey
animal with only their teeth (quiet dinosaur). neighbors re-wrote persig (for mariners), celebrated soccer with fireworks just outside porthole nearest my pillow (an empty city during regulation). hannes turntabled german techno (the kids listen to this nowadays), grilled until one kernel on
the cob popped (bavarians are german stereotype-weird, swabians are cuckoo clock-weird). he's bus stop advertising (logo's palette matches stuttgart's flag), he passed my star count an año or so ago (tho our principal arena of competition: discontinued trackball mice on ebay), his project boasts now twenty thou (still contributor runner-up on mine). but. i. am. most. fascinated. that: dude
lives, nay, raises a family in a modest (1980s) home that floats. can god build an encryption system so strong he himself could not decipher it? and what if all the random number generation algorithms on
the surface of the earth malfunctioned in just the same way at just the
same time? two views of optometrist's shroud (½-full), and one from mobile picnic with said admiral (seconds prior to pointing out chez rembrandt) -
read m.c. escher: the graphic work, written by maurits cornelis and published by taschen. i visited his palace too. god's eye tower of babel depicts construction screeching to halt at moment multiple languages were born. neither another world ii nor dragon violates four limbs as tetrapodal limit
a side-grained block of wood, usually pear
although i am absolutely innocent of training or knowledge in the exact sciences, i often seem to have more in common with mathematicians than with my fellow artists
1. tower of babel, woodcut, 1928, 62 x 38.5 cm (24 1/2 x 15 1/4 in.) .. the work is at a standstill because they are no longer able to understand each other
ii. the regular division of a plane 8-35 .. the richest source of inspiration that i have ever struck; nor has it yet dried up .. how a surface can be regularly divided into, or filled up with, similar-shaped figures which are contiguous to one another, without leaving any open spaces.
the moors were past masters of this. they decorated walls and floors, particularly in the alhambra in spain, by placing congruent, multi-colored pieces of majolica together without leaving any spaces between. what a pity it is that islam did not permit them to make "graven images". they always restricted themselves, in their massed tiles, to designs of an abstract geometrical type. not one single moorish artist, to the best of my knowledge, ever made so bold (or maybe the idea never occurred to him) as to use concrete, recognizable, naturalistically conceived figures of fish, birds, reptiles or human beings as elements in their surface coverage
have become enmeshed
the birds emerge
they attain their greatest size on reaching the equator and thereafter they become smaller and disappear into the other, invisible pole on the far side of the sphere
dependent on four factors: 1. the quality of his wood-block, 2. the sharpness of the instrument that he is using, 3. the steadiness of his hand and, 4. his optical ability (good eyesight, plenty of light and a powerful magnifying lens). in this particular case, the halving of the figures is carried through ad absurdum
only one wood-block is used for both colors, these having been printed one after the other on the same sheet of paper, and turned 180 degrees in reflection to each other. the two prints fill up each other's open spaces
a static method of illustrating a dynamic fact
lying flat and rigid amongst his fellows..wrenches himself free and launches out into real life. he climbs up the back of a book on zoology and works his laborious way up the slippery slope of a set square to the highest point of his existence. then after a quick snort, tired but fulfilled, he goes downhill again
three diamonds which give the impression of a cube
the only reason for their existence is one's enjoyment of this difficult game, without any ulterior motive
34. mosaic i, mezzotint
36. depth, wood-engraving printed from three blocks, 1955 .. space is divided up cubically. each fish is found at the intersection of three lines of fish, all of which cross each other at right-angles
three vanishing points
nine red ants crawl after each other..the strip has only one surface
a combination of three diamond-shapes can make a cube. yet it still remains an open question as to whether we are looking at this cube from within or without. the mental reversal, this inward or outward turning, this inversion of a shape, is the game that is played
a stellar dodecahedron..a tailless monster with a long neck and four legs
the two-dimensional is every bit as fictitious as the four-dimensional, for nothing is flat, not even the most finely polished mirror
in the lower left foreground there lies a piece of paper on which the edges of a cube are drawn. two small circles mark the places where edges cross each other
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