in search of
isometric: having equal measure
isotropic: identical in all directions
isomorphic: similar appearance, different ancestry
isochromatic: same color
isochronal: having the same duration
(the image above started as an isometric projection of filtered noise.)
noise, filters, meaning.
arithmetic, pure number
geometry, number in space
music, number in time
astronomy, number in time and space
starting merlin sheldrake's entangled life (2020) and dreaming about spring. above, dried golden oyster from last fall.
today is september 10001 [web].
a dirge, for the death of the internet. this is the second movement of an unfinished collection.
eternal september ii [mp3]
study in layered ranges of equilateral triangles.
"'Primitive' cultures tend to combine all aspects of their lives-- religion, art, medicine, astronomy and farming-- in a single ritual framework. Construction of a circle must have been a communal effort which aided social cohesion."
art and meaning. no meaning is meaning.
or perhaps all channels of transmission are like old leaky wires full of static.
partial source code for wide awake from gnostics
this recent snow is peculiar.
robert macfarlane tells us there are lost words to describe such peculiarities--- cultures with a hundred words for different snow. this word-hoard sharpens attention. ways of seeing emerge.
it's a new day, lol
a public log is somewhat antithetical to my inclination towards ephemeral and personal.
recently thinking too much about digital hoarding: decades of invisible life reaching a threshold where it enters consciousness unexpectedly. photos, music collections, partially finished projects, decades of useless email.
perhaps given the modern ease of creation (including the amount of creation that happens unconsciously or against our will), erasure can be a more powerful action. to sharpen, clarify.
snow falls. machine drawn one dimensional cellular atomata. one of thirty-something. 6" x 4"
post-process, erasure of machine-drawn graphite guidelines.
we are new and we are the same.
years and years pass, still probably true.
"In 1973 Alexander Thom undertook the first accurate survey of Stonehenge. Having previously surveyed over 500 stone circles, he confirmed that a unit of 2.72 feet (0.829m) had been used by their builders, which he called the Megalithic yard."
new process. post plot hot water wash full immersion scrub. objectness emerges after attempted erasure.
we found this slab of old growth hemlock in the rafters of the building, forgotten in 1865. it is 22 inches wide, thrown down as simply something to walk on across the joists during construction: a portrait of past abundance and human shortsightedness. it is now a table, with renewed respect.
added a preliminary page regarding this site as an informational object.
see source.
paracelsus said "all things are concealed in all."
"When the unique is created, it also creates the creator.
The more finished goods become commodities, the fewer opportunities an individual has to generate new creation. The ability to mass-produce removes the opportunity for the great many to learn to produce at all. From such a thought, a future full of consumption-only hobbies might come as no surprise.
If you commoditize toys, you remove the toymaker. If you remove the toymaker, the toy is only an object of consumption. It ceases to be an object of wonder."
it is done. gnostics
currently reading megalith: studies in stone which is a collection of nine short books: stone circles, carnac, stonehenge, avebury, stanton drew, callanish, ancient british rock art, and surveys of stone circles. the diagrams and engravings are phenomenal.
related: julian cope's modern antiquarian BBC documentary (2000).
the breakthrough happened after adding constraints. watercolor and painting in general always felt intimidating, but it has become a joy after pushing some algorithms into the robot pencil mover.
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