DREAMS & HYPERCUBES


Borges slides


The line is made up of an infinite number of points; the plane of an infinite number of lines; the volume of an infinite number of planes; the hypervolume of an infinite number of volumes.
-JORGE LUIS BORGES
The Book of Sand (1953)


PRO

The Sacred Art of Islam is, like all veritable sacred art, a descent of heavenly reality upon the earth.
-SEYYED HOSSEIN NASR
Islamic Art and Spirituality (1987)


CON

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:
-MOSES
Exodus 20:4


ALICE TO QUEEN 7

"I see you're admiring my little box," the Knight said in a friendly tone. "It's my own invention - to keep clothes and sandwiches in. You see I carry it upside-down, so that the rain ca'n't get in."

"But the things can get out," Alice gently remarked. "Do you know the lid's open?"

"I didn't know it," the Knight said, a shade of vexation passing over his face. "Then all the things must have fallen out! And the box is no use without them." He unfastened it as he spoke, and was just going to throw it into the bushes, when a sudden thought seemed to strike him, and he hung it carefully on a tree. "Can you guess why I did that?" he said to Alice.

Alice shook her head.

"In hopes some bees may make a nest in it - then I should get the honey."

-LEWIS CARROLL
Through the Looking-Glass (1871)


KOAN HEADS

In contrast to formal education in the sciences, discipline in the arts and skilled trades is not complete without the trial of the koan. Every student of practical creativity is given a simple form, such as an egg or cube, to study for days and weeks. The purpose of the koan is to break the hold of fundamental concepts on the students' perceptions. Every different way that an artist can express the idea of a cube is equivalent to the different equations that a mathematician can derive from a cube.
T. B. PAWLICKI
Higher Dimensions of Space & Time (1984)


Shadow boxes become poetic theatres or settings wherein are metamorphosed the elements of a childhood pastime. The fragile, shimmering globules become the shimmering but more enduring planets - a connotation of moon and tides - the association of water less subtle, as when driftwood pieces make up a proscenium to set off the dazzling white of sea-foam and billowy cloud crystallized in a pipe of fancy.
-JOSEPH CORNELL
Solar System (1956-58)

venus mars

VENUS                 MARS




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