Entry 332 — Not Quite a Zero-Interest Entry
I didn’t start the new year with an explosion of productivity but did work out and complete a new mathemaku, which I like right now. It’s for Bill DiMichele’s Tip of the Knife Blog. I hope to make one to three more mathemaku for Bill but have only one idea for one in mind, and it’s very vague. The one just done came about as many of mine do: I sketched a few ideas, then decided on a final version . . . but couldn’t energize myself into going to Paint Shop to execute it. Today, I felt I had to finish it, but dawdled again. At which point my eyes strayed across a copy of my This Is Visual Poetry, and I instantly saw the cover image as perfect for my mathemaku. It’s now the remainder of the latter. It may be my first long division remainder that is the focal point of the poem it’s in. The rest of the poem is words and the long division apparati.
So, another example of my unconscious preventing me for finishing a piece my conscious mind thinks adequate until a flaw is corrected. This can only happen, I believe, for very slow workers.
I won’t show the poem here since it’s for Bill’s blog, but will provide a link to it when he posts it, which should be in a week or two.