(The title is from a work by Charles Sanders Peirce.)
For LYNX 760 —
For more beauty and strangeness, see Strange McEntire.
Friday, March 28, 2014
Chinese Rune
"The Geometry of the I Ching introduces something called the Cullinane sequence
for the hexagrams, and uses a notation based on the four sides and two diagonals
in a square to indicate the yin and yang lines. The resulting rune-like symbols
are intriguing…."
— Andreas Schöter's I Ching home page
Actually, the geometry is a bit deeper than the rune-like symbols.
" 'Harriet Burden has been really great to me,'
Rune says in an interview, 'not only as a collector
of my work but as a true supporter. And I think of her
as a muse for the project … ' "
— In The Blazing World , the artist known as Rune
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Nabokovian
"Constructed as a Nabokovian cat’s cradle, the novel
purports to be the work of a professor of aesthetics…."
— Fernanda Eberstadt in a book review now online
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Blazing Thule
The title is suggested by a new novel (see cover below),
and by an unwritten book by Nabokov —
.
Related material:
- An artists' book scheduled to be released on March 21, 2014
- A piece by Josefine Lyche in the artists' book
- The original by Borges on which Lyche's piece was based
-
A solar image from a March 13 post echoing
that on the Blazing World cover above - A Tune for Josefine
- The circular blazing image from last midnight's post Symbol
-
From March 21, the scheduled date of the Oslo
artists' book release, some remarks on the mathematics of the
Golay code, "Three Constructions of the Miracle Octad Generator" - Backstory: Duelle in this journal.
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Art School Confidential
For Reba McEntire on her birthday:
Complex Reflection and Naturalized Epistemology.
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Symbol
For Josefine Lyche, by fellow artist Nuno Borges:
Related material:
Recent remarks by Lyche and
a recurring image from this journal.
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