continued…
of the 3×3 square
are discussed in
From Lullus to Cognitive Semantics:
The Evolution of a Theory of Semantic Fields
by Wolfgang Wildgen and in
Another Page in the Foundation of Semiotics:
A Book Review of On the Composition of Images, Signs & Ideas, by Giordano Bruno…
by Mihai Nadin
“We have had a gutful of fast art and fast food. What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a vase holds water: art that grows out of modes of perception and whose skill and doggedness make you think and feel; art that isn’t merely sensational, that doesn’t get its message across in 10 seconds, that isn’t falsely iconic, that hooks onto something deep-running in our natures. In a word, art that is the very opposite of mass media. For no spiritually authentic art can beat mass media at their own game.”
— Robert Hughes, speech of June 2, 2004
Whether the 3×3 square grid is fast art or slow art, truly or falsely iconic, perhaps depends upon the eye of the beholder.
For a meditation on the related 4×4 square grid as “art that holds time,” see Time Fold.