May 13, 2006

• ART WARS continued…

  A Fold in Time

  From May 13, Braque’s birthday, 2003:

  
  

  Braque

  
  Above: Braque and tesseract

  “The senses deform, the mind forms.  Work to perfect the mind.  There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.”

  – Georges Braque, Reflections on Painting, 1917

  Those who wish to follow Braque’s advice may try the following exercise from a book first published in 1937:

  

  Hint: See the above picture of
  Braque and the construction of
  a tesseract.

  Related material:

  Storyline and Time Fold
  (both of Oct. 10, 2003),
  and the following–

  “Time, for L’Engle, is accordion-pleated. She elaborated, ‘When you
  bring a sheet off the line, you can’t handle it until it’s folded, and
  in a sense, I think, the universe can’t exist until it’s folded– or
  it’s a story without a book.’”

  – Cynthia Zarin on Madeleine L’Engle,
  “The Storyteller,” in The New Yorker,
  issue dated April 12, 2004

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