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Entry 1208 — Visiomathematical Play Time

Monday, September 9th, 2013

A couple of days ago Ross Priddle posted the visiomathematical piece below in Facebook, asking what I would make of it:

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By chance, I was at the time working on something that had much in common with his piece:

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I posted my piece at Otherstream Unlimited, mentioning that Ross’s piece and it seemed to me promising works-in-progress.  The next day (yesterday, posterity, I’m sure, will want to know) I tried to push mine somewhere, .with the following result:

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 Didn’t get far, but had fun.  One thing I learned that maybe every visual artist knows: scribbled colored lines that don’t seem like much start to acquire semi-potent meaning wen you have enough of them.  Or so it seemed to me.  Why, I wonder.  I will think about it.  I will also think about why this is still a work-in-progress and what to do about that.  Sure, many works are most suggestively “complete” when left unfinished, but I don’t think this is one of them.

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