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Friday, March 28, 2014

Musement

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 7:00 pm

(The title is from a work by Charles Sanders Peirce.)

For LYNX 760 —

IMAGE- Image search for 'the clean crystalline work'

For more beauty and strangeness, see Strange McEntire.

Chinese Rune

Filed under: General,Geometry — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 pm

"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

Nabokovian

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:16 am

"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

Blazing Thule

Filed under: General — Tags: , , — m759 @ 10:20 am

The title is suggested by a new novel (see cover below),
and by an unwritten book by Nabokov —

Siri Hustvedt, 'The Blazing World'.

Related material:

Art School Confidential

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 4:01 am

For Reba McEntire on her birthday:
Complex Reflection and Naturalized Epistemology.

Symbol

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:00 am

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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