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| Geometry for Jews
(continued from
Michelangelo's birthday, 2003)
"Discuss the geometry
underlying the above picture."
-- Log24, March 6, 2003
Abstraction and the Holocaust (Mark Godfrey, Yale University Press, 2007) describes one approach to such a discussion:
Bochner "took a photograph of a new arrangement of blocks, cut it up, reprinted it as a negative, and arranged the four corners in every possible configuration using the serial principles of rotation and reversal to make Sixteen Isomorphs (Negative) of 1967, which he later illustrated alongside works by Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt and Eva Hesse in his Artforum article 'The Serial Attitude.' [December 1967, pp. 28-33]"
Bochner's picture of "every possible configuration"--
Compare with the 24 figures in Frame Tales (Log24, Nov. 10, 2008) and in Theme and Variations.
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| Hello, Columbuscontinued from
the two entries of
October 12, 2003:Part I --October 12, 2003 --
Above, an image from
Spinnin' Wheel,
Spinnin' True
Part II -- October 12, 2003 -- 
Above, an image from
Hello, Columbus Part III --
June 10, 2009 -- Below, images from a website:  "They all laughed at
Christopher Columbus..." -- Ira Gershwin
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| Recessional"I know what nothing means." -- Joan Didion, Play It As It Lays Faust
President Faust of Harvard on Joan Didion:
"She was referring to life as a kind of improvisation: that magical crossroads of rigor and ease, structure and freedom, reason and intuition. What she calls being prepared to 'go with the change.'"
Didion's own words:
"I think about swimming with him into the cave at Portuguese Bend, about the swell of clear water, the way it changed, the swiftness and power it gained as it narrowed through the rocks at the base of the point. The tide had to be just right. We had to be in the water at the very moment the tide was right. We could only have done this a half dozen times at most during the two years we lived there but it is what I remember. Each time we did it I was afraid of missing the swell, hanging back, timing it wrong. John never was. You had to feel the swell change. You had to go with the change. He told me that. No eye is on the sparrow but he did tell me that."
From the same book:
"The craziness is receding but no clarity is taking its place."
-- Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking
For a magical crossroads at another university, see the five Log24 entries ending on November 25, 2005:
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