Light and Its Aftereffects

Lux fiat. Verbum est.

Stepping out of the tradition into a displacement of sorts.

this account of light
as an acquired characteristic
became propositional

just as every forest
would come to speak to us
as a verb

"North by South" Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent Liz Howard

Other instances of illumination gave us a blood moon & plenum and another moon caught in gutter water. All emanating from that peculiar poetic direction: north by south.

And so for day 2242
01.02.2013

Space and Transformations

Leonard Mlodinow in Euclid's Window provides this insightful take on location and access to it via both geometry and algebra.

There is more to location than naming a spot [...] The real power of a theory of location resides in the ability to relate different locations, paths, and shapes to each other, and to manipulate them employing equations — in the unification of geometry and algebra.

The key here is "the ability to relate". All in the name of manipulation.

And so for day 652
25.09.2008