a
The addition of (a) to this piece, suggests that it is to be taken seriously.
There is humour in this.
words...numbers...sometimes, a little cement
Approximate
Combined process with cement, on canvas — 30" x 24"
It has always amazed me, that no two things are identical ~ even the cans in Warhol's 'Beef Noodle' http://tinyurl.com/ktagxz will vary just a little.
Does this mean, that once we leave the realm of mind ~ All is approximate? ...and the equals sign: =, no longer works?
In mathematics there are some wonderful expressions of meaning
= : is equal to : eg 1 + 1 = 2
< : is less than : eg 3 < 4
> : is greater than : eg 5 > 4
≠ : is not equal to : eg 4 ≠ 5
± : plus or minus : eg 6 ± 3 means both 6 + 3 and 6 − 3.
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No more things...
This painting is a stranger to me.
When I'd finished it, I had no idea what to call it.
So I took a book off the shelf, opened it and pointed.
This is what I read:
Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.
Attributed to William Occam c.1280-1349
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gnosis
I like Plato's idea ~ that everything can be represented by number.
If you look at things as vibrational frequency, this makes a lot of sense.
In John King's wonderful book 'The Modern Numerology – A Practical Guide to the meaning and influence of numbers' he lists the attributes of significant numbers.
One that caught my imagination was 1271 —
1271 in the Greek system of numerology, means Stavros (the cross*); E Gnosis, the knowledge of God.
*The cross is a very interesting symbol, of which more later.
This painting hangs in the living room of @lizbeth33 and it couldn't have a nicer home.
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Nueve
The Spanish word 'nueve' means 9
it doesn't mean 'new' at all :)
Actually....just checked ~ the root of 'new', in Spanish is nueve!
Further —
This peculiar etymological relationship between 'new' and 'nine' is found in many languages.
It appears in Persian, Sanskrit and Latin, also....
Neun/Neu (German)
Neuf/nouveau (French) come from the same root ~ in fact neuf and neuve are used to mean 'new')
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Zeitlich
Yesterday, while dozing on the couch, during a delicious cranial treatment ~ two words suddenly appeared.
This may not seem extraordinary...but they were in German, and I don't speak German ~ my practitioner didn't speak it either. This left me pondering....Why these two words?....and why German?
The second question was easier to answer than the first.
My Twitter friend @detlef_c (Detlef Cordes) is German (at least, he tweets a lot in German) and through him, other German friends have come. I see the words as they appear on screen, not knowing any meaning ~ the odd word like 'ist' and Liebe' maybe...the rest ~ pure symbol.
I'm more conscious of the German word....and that's how zeit-lich came ~ not as a sound at first, but as a written word – an image.
This idea of being 'conscious' of a thing, interests me. It seems there's a subtle (but overwhelming) difference between 'having' thoughts about something and 'being' conscious of it ~ as if a channel opens up.
The first question, unwound itself....
I had a painting, part started, part finished ~ just 5 black lines on some concrete.
This morning, when i did a quick translate of the words Zeit lich it gave me Temporal
I checked this out with Detlef and he agreed it was a possible translation, depending on context.
Well, here it is.
I hope my German friends will forgive any misinterpretation!
Here is a poem to go with the piece –
yesterday, today, tomorrow / three words / one clock ~ #haiku
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Root of the root
i carry your heart with me
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in
my heart)i am never without it(anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)
i fear
no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars
apart
i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)
ee cummings
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