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A network is not an object. It is processes, paths and movement, forms and
functions moving and changing through time. Unless you want to call time an
object, and space another, no network is one. Maybe -- maybe -- a map of a
network is an object, but would you therefore call a planet's
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Leonardo had a phrase for his notebooks which he called "scrittura infinita":
infinite writing. This didn't mean an infinite number of words, since that is
impossible.
It meant, says Carlo Vecce, whose book "Leonardo and his Books" I bought at the
Galileo Museum in Firenza in June of 20
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The internet of our present day is unfortunately dominated by two particular
genii, not in the complimentary sense of highly developed intellects of true
integrity, purpose, and benefit to the world, but in the more mechanical sense
of quasi-coherent algorithmic entities run more or les
D, E, D, F#
Town where I dwell
Some call it Midwest hell
I call it right on time
It rings out like a bell
Farms and lakes abound
We all go ramblin' around
The buzzin' and the bugs
We like that rocky sound
D, E, F#, G
O, Fitzgerald
Rogers Nelson
Bobby Stinson
E, G
Experience for sure
Ancie
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One might not immediately recognize the political relevance of Leonardo da
Vinci for the century of climate change, accelerated technology, and various
forms of social disruption.
However, he saw our situation today pretty clearly in advance and designed his
works in accordance with ex
Interview with Andrew North Whitehead, philosopher from England, 1861-1947
Test of artificial interview detection skills and efficiency
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MH: Welcome Professor Whitehead, thank you for your time.
ANW: It's my pleasure.
MH: Do you know the picture called La Gioconda, La Joconde, the M
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Web log 18
The Mindful Mona Lisa: Portrait of Experience
By Max Herman
Saturday, 09/12/2020
https://leonardo.info/blog/2020/09/12/the-mindful-mona-lisa-portrait-of-experience
As a lifelong pioneer across the arts and sciences, Leonardo took both risks
and precautions when he traversed c
lack swan" event.
No one could have predicted it, but it would have an inordinate effect. The
Summer Olympics of 2024 might be known forever after as the Paris of
Experience, where for some fortuitous reason the European tradition and the
rest of the world's traditions rebalanced thems
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Prehistoric science, a la Graeber and Wengrow's "Dawn of Everything," from the
preface to an old book from 1969 by Giorgio di Santillana:
"This time I was able to grasp the idea at a glance, because I was ready for
it. Many, many years before, I had questioned myself, in a note, about the
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The recent call for ideas about how to use ad hoc means, possibly unpermitted
ones, to survive or protect certain cherished values when formerly stable
systems like the climate and the rule of law are collapsing reminded me of the
Mona Lisa.
After all, just a few days or weeks ago someone
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The modern world has problems. No longer ancient and starting sort of from
scratch, no longer medieval with short lifespans and a simple church-state
duopoly, and certainly no longer indigenous in direct mutual dialogue with
nature like a woven fabric, our problems are unique enough to ha
"loose, organic network structure"
References to Leonardo in Ognosia, Flights, and Drive Your Plow Over the Bones
of the Dead
Blake
Experience
Jung and bridges
"In the social sphere, perhaps there will be a new and proper valuation of
decentralized structures organized in networks"
"Today,
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Jung writes very clearly in Psychology and Alchemy, 1953 (2023 minus 70, 1873
plus 80), some say his most influential book:
"As a doctor it is my task to help the patient cope with life. I cannot
presume to pass judgment on their final decisions, because I know from
experience that all c
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Esperienza Gold Bullion is an unencrypted value fabric sub-technology based on
this email (EGB~1).
It follows the novel validation basis called Proof-of-Experience using a "brick
weave" design with a high degree of indeterminate or quantum variability and
analog preference. Four photogra
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Events may be getting out of control worldwide due to the war in Gaza.
Virtually all players in the military world are lined up on one side or the
other and ready to jump in if certain conditions occur or are expected to
occur. This is like World War I where the elaborate chaos of allian
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Alchemy is strange. It's what they used to call science when it was still
superstitious, and maybe it still is. After all, what is superstition but
trying to say you know things you don't know, and can do things you can't do?
And it seems like people still can't sustain the planet and
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Italo Calvino's 1985 book of five short essays, Six Memos for the Next
Millennium, which discusses the "hypernovel" as a network, was published
posthumously not as designed.
What was supposed to happen was for Calvino to travel from Italy to Harvard,
Massachusetts and deliver the Memos as
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Not everyone knows what Dante called his famous 1321 epic of catabasis. Later
dubbed "La Divina Commedia" by Boccaccio, it was actually called by Dante
simply "Comedia" or Comedy. (No "the," no "divine," and not even two m's.)
Boccaccio's own 1353 long imaginative work of prose The Deca
injured cardinal looked
at me, asked me a question
asked the question, "Caw?"
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Neuroscientist and author Anil Seth in his 2022 book Being You suggests that
"experience" is the defining measure of consciousness, a "controlled
hallucination" or "interoceptive inference" based on predictiv
La Commedia Meccanica: Intelligent Modernity of Experience, Experiment, and
Esperienza
Abstract:
Early Anthropocene culture centers on fear of technological tragedy. The
anticipated losses may be of any type: cultural, ecological, ethnic,
institutional, climactic, even planetary. Great los
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Art for Our Sake: a 21st Century Mona Lisa
This year marks the 150th anniversary of what some consider the most famous
prose ever written about a painting: Walter Pater’s 1873 collection of essays
The Renaissance. Transcending and departing from Victorian thought, Pater’s
description of
In 1864, Walter Pater published his first essay "Diaphaneitè."
During the US Civil War. The year after the Gettysburg Address.
https://www.laits.utexas.edu/farrell/documents/DIAPHANEITI.pdf
Trying to move literature and society beyond, out of, Victorianism to something
new and better.
Something o
Minor clarification, I read the fragment by Pater in 2022 and read the rest of
The Renaissance and Marius the Epicurean in 2023. Apologies for this
convolution!
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"In its blog post, OpenAI said GPT-4 still makes many of the errors of previous
versions, including 'hallucinating' nonsense, perpetuating social biases and
offering bad advice. It also lacks knowledge of events that happened after
about September 2021, when its training data was finalized, an
Hi all,
Just wanted to share this link (walterpater.com) to an Oxford conference this
June marking the 150th anniversary of Walter Pater's influential
proto-modernist book of essays The Renaissance. It was in this work that his
renowned paragraph about the Mona Lisa found its main audience an
The Aesthetic Movement: Walter Pater on the Mona Lisa
The Renaissance (London, 1893). Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1980, pp. 98-99.
"The presence that rose thus so strangely beside the waters, is expressive of
what in the ways of a thousand years men had come to desire. Hers is the head
upon which
Why the Mona Lisa is network art für die Zeitenwende:
1. New media qua new media –
* new is a transient status that crosses historical time
* Once newer media are now older. How old? Furthermore: they are used
in older or newer ways. Things get old fast.
2. Network technolo
1. J'ai une théorie selon laquelle la Joconde est une allégorie.
2. Le pont symbolise le flux de l'histoire de l'art, de la science et de
l'ingénierie.
3. Le vêtement symbolise leur état actuel, à la fois porté et tissé par la
figure.
4. La figure est une allégorie d'Esperienza, qui
Hi all,
I'm almost done with my trilogy about Leonardo, Dante, and Machiavelli -- the
same basic stuff I've been posting about for the last couple of years. Once
complete I don't know that there will be a whole lot more to the enterprise,
such as getting a Ph.D. or academic post and such like
Hi Marc,
I just got my copy of the book last week and have started reading it. Great to
see so many on the list represented!
For now I've just read the intro and conclusion, and skimmed the images and
chapters, because of the different "eye" and vocabulary I'm using for current
work in progre
I recently noticed an article about how spiders use their web for cognitive
tasks, hypothetically, in what is called "extended cognition." The truth of
this hypothesis depends somewhat on how you define cognition, or intelligence,
or consciousness, and how you define tools or distinguish them
Hi all,
I had a vague sense of having heard of his book The Tao of Physics (1975) at
some point, but only this week found Fritjof Capra's writings about Leonardo.
He sees a lot of the systems and network principles in Leonardo's work that I
also believe to be there. Specific books of interes
Oh darn... 🙂
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Hi Corey
Hi Corey,
It is good to see another image in this series today. The old cameras are
nice, and remind me of the Retina IIa I was using last week having found it in
an old box. I'm pretty sure I used it totally wrong, not reading the
instruction book, but we'll see. Dropping off the film toda
Hi all,
There's an interesting astronomical event this month, that occurs every 18
years, where several planets line up in order. It happens pre-dawn so I
haven't seen it yet but plan to soon and especially on the 24th when the moon
will line up too.
Planets have always been an interesting n
Hi all,
I've got a very basic work about the Italian Renaissance (in part) as part of a
very interesting assemblage of works for the wrong bienniale no. 5 at
https://thewrong.leonardo.info/.
The collection and works are all from last year and therefore out of sync
time-wise, perhaps, but that
Hi all,
As I continue my research about Leonardo I've looked more closely at Leslie
Geddes' commentary on the bridge in her 2020 book Watermarks: Leonardo da Vinci
and the Mastery of Nature. (The title is partly ironic, I'm sure.)
Excerpted below, the scope and extent of her evaluation of the
I asked someone a bit older, born in 1947, about this on Wednesday. They
hadn't heard of the pro-war letter but when I asked what they thought might be
a good anti-war letter they said M for peace i.e. Mir. I was thinking of a
different letter, more angry and complex, but I think theirs is th
Curious what people think of the letter being used as a pro war meme. Makes me
wonder how much this war is a product of the web 2.0.
Is there an antiwar letter out there yet?
Wishing wellbeing for all.
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These days I avoid the news feed because the imagery is so demoralizing and
savage. I approach the information sideways, out of the corner of my eye,
flickering, so that it doesn't eat my whole brain so to speak. What can be
done, what can be done.
There is certainly a cacophony of explanat
Hi all,
I've been wondering lately about how and whether the Webb Telescope may relate
in any way to the great umbrella/rubric of "network culture." I see a lot of
network effects, metaphors, phenomena, patterns in astrophysics -- fields,
strings, probabilities, particles, systems, flows -- b
Hi all,
Given the high European membership on this list I would imagine that there is a
lot of anxiety regarding the possibility of land conflict currently dominating
the news. There certainly is deep apprehension in the US, as far as I can
tell, and personally I share this albeit from a much
Hi all,
After some more checking I have no new information about the origin of the
Latin word nota (meaning "note," as in musical tone, written character, etc.).
It's still odd to me that such a basic word would have unknown origin. Does
this mean that sometimes words appear out of nowhere f
e but lacking any rigorous knowledge at all it could also be
utterly ridiculous. 🙂
All best,
Max
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Not sure if related, but knot is "granthi" in Sanskrit and the related
"granthin" means reading books
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Hi all,
Trying to learn a bit of Italian here and there to better understand Leonardo,
I looked up the etymology for "note" yesterday.
Instant internet facts might not be true but it does appear to go back quite
clearly to the Latin nota:
'c. 1300, "a song, music, melody; instrumental music;
Hi Johannes,
As the year draws to an end I like the idea of looking backward in time.
For me 2021 was mostly about studying Dante Alighieri's works and their effect
on the works of Leonardo. Like two black holes at the center of the modern
galaxy, these two figures perhaps more than any other
Happy Solstice Ruth!
I greatly enjoyed this meditation and concept.
Would onlist feedback make sense? I'm wondering if the circles are more
intended for those doing the activity together.
All best to all,
Max
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Hi all,
Researching this past month I noted an interesting quote by Paul Valery in his
1895 essay "Introduction to the Method of Leonardo da Vinci." (One wonders why
it is called an "Introduction," when there is no other work subsequently
attached, but perhaps it is a kind of boast unsurprisi
ains; and if there is a
pattern what else could be in the process of being similarly acquired then sold
back? This could also be overstating the case on my part, a kind of commercial
phobia, not sure.
All best,
Max
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Hi Anthony,
That is a very interesting idea from Heydenreich, who I've never read and don't
really know anything about though the name sounds familiar. I did read
somewhere that Leonardo's Arno Valley is sometimes considered the first true
landscape, but I am too uneducated in art history to
Hi Anthony,
I never read Milles Plateaux (sp.?) as I felt that if I ever really needed to
know something from it someone could quote it or explain it to me. So this is
such a case, possibly even the first!
For whatever reason, theoretical language is something I prefer not to use very
much b
Hi all,
I posted a wrong link; here is the article I meant to reference about chiasmus
in Stevens' poetry:
Robert Hariman, "What is a Chiasmus? Or, Why the Abyss Stares Back," from 2014,
which discusses "The Motive for Metaphor":
https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9qcqv1.6
"The use of chiasmu
Hi Paul,
This is really interesting and great to read. Is the role of machine
generation something you explain as part of the work, or leave in question?
Just reading it at face value, black box, I like how it exists in pieces or
short sections. I count 16, oddly starting at 0, and ending in
Very interesting and informative discussions, thank you for the event!
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Hi Joana,
This project sounds really interesting! There is something missing from or
overlooked in the now-standard model of a building in which special objects
exist that are visited by viewers in a kind of circulatory way. Clearly there
were and still are obvious reasons for such a quasi-N
Correction: the author is Nina Witoszek, from Oslo University.
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The "Leonardo video" is almost a genre in itself! 🙂
Here is one of the only examples I've found watchable, from the 2017 Aspen
event, starting at about 27:00.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtYhVk7qsSI&t=6s
https://www.aspeninstitute.org/events/leonardo-da-vinci-celebration-wonder-imaginatio
Hi Johannes,
That sounds like a great project! I will check it out.
The book actually delves quite a lot into water as itself being a bridge. For
example, it claims that the Latin word for bridge derives from the ancient
Greek word for sea, and that ancient Greece understood the sea to be a
Hi Anthony! I couldn't agree more. The most common bridges here are over the
Mississippi, and every time I cross one I think an appreciate thought about the
river and thereby all water and all nature. In this way the bridge means more
to me, and something better, than just "I want to get mys
A very nice image and narrative Simon, thank you! It has a haunting quality
which is somehow quite encouraging. It reminds me very much of Calvino's style
in the best sense, as well as a very nice visit I had on Saturday to local Lake
Nokomis here.
Yesterday I got a copy of a very interestin
Hi all,
I just found a cool essay by Paul Valery called "Introduction to the Method of
Leonardo da Vinci," which he wrote in 1895 at the tender age of 24 and updated
in 1930.
Valery focuses on many of the aspects of Leonardo's technique which I believe
are part of his principle of Esperienza,
Hi all,
Out of curiosity, is anyone familiar with Emerson's poem "Experience"? The
accompanying essay quotes Galileo's "pero si muove" and mentions Dante in ways
that may relate to Leonardo's own philosophy of experience (esperienza).
https://emersoncentral.com/texts/essays-second-series/exper
Hi all,
I've been overly busy this past month but wanted to mention a new hypothesis
that the bridge in the Mona Lisa could be a reference to Rodomonte's Bridge, as
featured in Italian epic poems by Boiardo (Orlando Innamorato, circa 1490) and
Ariosto (Orlando Furioso, 1516). Leonardo's fondn
Hi Ruth,
I just finished voting and think this is a fantastic concept and framework.
The participatory nature of it is so important for sustainable and resilient
art community. Mammoth frameworks of big-data algorithms and high-dollar
collector transactions simply don't do certain things tha
I had to look up Mathesis and found it not in the dictionary, but then found
Leibniz's Mathesis Universalis, with its universal synthesis, art of
combination, art of invention, and so on.
In some ways, the pre-Socratics foresaw the future better than many
post-Socratics. Archimedes almost inv
Hi Ruth,
This looks marvelously done and I look forward to viewing the projects!
For some reason, looking at the overview link I got the sense that humanity is
still in the early stages of integrating technology with a sustainable planet.
Up to now, so much of our history has been that of ext
Hi Simon,
I like how these crafts are part of the sea and sky, intermixed. Webs can
catch and tangle but sails are webs too!
The boat I'm most often reminded of these days is predictably that in
Leonardo's dog and eagle allegory:
https://www.rct.uk/collection/912496/an-allegory-with-a-dog-an
Hi Alan,
I have to agree about the time cost of reading Finnegan's Wake. What percent
of the 17 years it took to write should one spend?
Beckett has an interesting comment in his essay, that Finnegan's Wake is not
meant to be read, or "not only read," but looked at and listened to. He argued
y one of the strangest I've read!
One question, you move between/through Leonardo and Dante - what other people,
periods, intensities, have you written within/without? It's fascinating work -
Best, Alan -
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* Her most recent poetry collection is titled "The Body Returns"
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Hi Graziano,
Apologies for my anglo-centrism! I was browsing wikipedia and saw that Blake
helped something o
If anyone can make sense of this article by Nail et al., please do! 🙂
https://www.academia.edu/40986241/WHAT_IS_NEW_MATERIALISM
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Hi Anthony,
Super interesting reference to Thomas Nail's work! I wonder if "Being and
Motion" is a reference to "Being and Time"? My philosophy reading is even
patchier than my Joyce.
In my research about Leonardo, much of which has consisted of emailing art
historians to ask for recommende
event, television seems a very quaint "final" technology given
what we see the internet getting up to nowadays.
Very best,
Max
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ur] DHSI TALK 2016 RIVERRUN THEORY DHSI
Honest to God, I have Noh Idea!
You should tell us, you do amazing close reading!
Best, Alan
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I am curious about the Four
of diminishing returns on such connection-making? I can't
say for sure, but one knows it when one sees it! 🙂
All best,
Max
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Honest to God, I have Noh Idea!
You should tell us, you do amazing close reading!
Best, Alan
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I am curious
Hi Alan,
I am curious about the Four Thunders. Might they compare at all to the
following "modes of reading" which Dante expounds in Convivio II, in order to
explain Ode 1? (I am very unused to Dante's curious habit in La Vita Nuova and
Il Convivio of writing a poem, then explaining what it
Hi Anthony,
I was trying to place "riverrun" too and I think it is from James Joyce,
perhaps Finnegan's Wake? Some of the material seems to invoke streams of
consciousness, streams of data, "course" being perhaps the key word? I was
interested recently to find that "curriculum" meant "chariot
which is very lovely.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-brain-maps-out-ideas-and-memories-like-spaces-20190114/
All best,
Max
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claws that grasp the souls of the worst sinners..
More tomorrow, when I will ask you all about time and drawing.
best
Johannes Birringer
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Hi Graziano,
Great informatio
on.pdf, that
>> offered what was then a new point of view on how to consider AI.
>>
>> // Paul
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>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2021 at 2:10 PM Paul Hertz
>> mailto:igno...@gmail.com><mailto:igno...@gmail.com<mailto:igno...@gmail.com>>&
Hi all,
In my haphazard quest since the summer of 2019 to discern if there is any
visual or thematic (verbal) meaning to the bridge and garment in Leonardo's
most famous portrait, Esperienza, I was inevitably led to look at literature or
as they say "Leonardo's Books." Among these were Dante b
rate precisely because it was
embodied. Some of his ideas are presented in the movie Fast, Cheap, and Out of
Control, directed ISTR by Errol Morris. If you haven't seen it yet, I can
recommend it.
-- Paul
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isely because it was
embodied. Some of his ideas are presented in the movie Fast, Cheap, and Out of
Control, directed ISTR by Errol Morris. If you haven't seen it yet, I can
recommend it.
-- Paul
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Simon this is great! I was just reading Calvino's second story in Cosmicomics
yesterday, the nebula one, it reminds in the best sense.
Resonates too somehow with the Madonna of the Rocks, not Wasps haha, a picture
confusing to me of which I prefer the more pointed Louvre version which got il
14, 2021 at 2:10 PM Paul Hertz
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Hi Max,
The robotics researcher Rodney Brooks back in the late 1980s argued the AI
based on the construction of a "knowledge base" was bound to fail. He made the
case that a robot adapting to an environment was far mor
Hi all,
I know virtually nothing about AI, beyond what the letters stand for, but
noticed this new article in Quanta Magazine. Does it pertain at all?
Interestingly it concludes that in order for AI to be human-like it will need
to understand analogy, the basis of abstraction, which may requ
Hi all,
I just wanted to post a quick finding based on finishing Keizer's book
yesterday.
In ancient Greece, the debate as to which art was supreme -- poetry or painting
-- centered on the famous Apelles. His fame equalled that of all other Greeks,
poets, sculptors, or architects, but zero o
Hi all,
This is an interesting example of a traditional venue -- a library --
attempting to move an event online due to the pandemic.
This page features an intriguing central sculpture and discusses the
"labyrinth" design of the space:
https://leonardo-online.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/en/knowledge-
Hi agee,
So interesting to hear about Chile's new constitutional project, and that their
president is both indigenous and a linguist. Writing a new constitution is
definitely a challenge not just for politics but for literature.
I'm not too familiar with Chilean literature, but skimmed a list
Hi all,
I just got this book last week and it has some amazing material about Leonardo
and writing. It compares aspects of Leonardo's process to modern artists such
as Twombly and I believe also to a variety of theorists including Benjamin.
The relationship of writing, speaking, and visual p
Hi Alan,
I like your photo and phrasing here! The line of soil reminded me of the water
horizon in the Mona Lisa, which I've been studying as it is a bit unusual.
Not sure if this is part of your poem, but I've been looking at weaving as a
motif and theme in Dante and Leonardo (possibly linked
Hi Ruth,
The Plinth and Based on a Tree Story both look fantastic!
Parks -- especially urban ones, perhaps -- are so important as cultural and
artistic places. They are very different from buildings, like museums,
libraries, or theaters (all of which are great too in their own ways). It is
ting to see
how the maze was used by the Templar’s the masons and the scholars studying the
Kabbala.
The maze as metaphor is very powerful.
Ana
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Hi Jessica and happy solstice all!
he maze at the cathedral of Chartres and it’s very interesting to see
how the maze was used by the Templar’s the masons and the scholars studying the
Kabbala.
The maze as metaphor is very powerful.
Ana
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Hi Jessica and happy solstice all!
The giant labyrinth sounds intriguing. A very ancient form, and so different
from one person making an art object then selling it to another. Perhaps the
latter is the greatest illusion of all? A distraction in a maze.
Labyrinths -- well I could go on and
Hi Alan,
A long reflection I wrote yesterday, no need to read but feel free if you wish!
🙂
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Today I was reading Canto 10, the first episode inside the gates of Purgatorio,
and what does Dante see first? Paintings! (Sort of.)
https://digitaldante.columbia.edu/dante/divine-comedy/purgato
Hi all,
I wrote the below yesterday and made a few minor edits this morning. It's
almost completely silly and foolish doggerel so please do not take it seriously
as verse! I tried to mention some points of possible conceptual interest
regarding Dante's potential relevance to contemporary con
Hi Paul,
Such an interesting post and image, thank you!
In your signature, I see a kind of A-B-B'-A' or "chiasmus" pattern, which I
learned about just last year:
(*,+,#,=)(#,=,*,+)(=,#,+,*)(+,*,=,#)
asterisk, plus, number, equals
number, equals, asterisk, plus
equals, number, plus, asterisk
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