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Truth, goodness and beauty exist in a symmetrical structure within the object…. Once the structure of the object is discovered, there is no need for any other rhetoric or embellishment. There isn’t much else that needs to be done.”

Lee Seong-bok, Indeterminate Inflorescence (notes from a poetry class) 2015 Trans. Anton Hur

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In the enfolded [or implicate] order, space and time are no longer the dominant factors determining the relationships of dependence or independence of different elements. Rather, an entirely different sort of basic connection of elements is possible, from which our ordinary notions of space and time, along with those of separately existent material particles, are abstracted as forms derived from the deeper order. These ordinary notions in fact appear in what is called the "explicate" or "unfolded" order, which is a special and distinguished form contained within the general totality of all the implicate order.

David Bohm, Wholeness and the implicate Order, 1980

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“Line in nature is not found. Unit and universe are round. Nature centres into balls”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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This business of unfolding what is implicit into what is explicit is the cosmos discovering its own nature. It may be the divine ground of being discovering what it has the capacity to make and feeling it reflected in another.

The unfolding bud doesn’t destroy the plant, it fulfils the plant.

Iain McGilchrist

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“Colour in certain places has the great value of making the outlines and structural planes seem more energetic.”

— Antonio Gaudi

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“The straight line belongs to men, the curved one to God”

Antoni Gaudi

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“I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old.”

George Canning. British conservative prime minister, speech on the affairs of Portugal, in House of Commons 12 December 1826

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Paper… is a vessel that carries the meaning we put on to it.

Camille Dungy

On the Met Museum’s podcast: “immaterial” episode four, on paper.

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“In a kind of reversal of the cliché according to which Western ideology dissimulates the production process at the expense of the final product, the production process, far from being concealed … serves as the fetish which fascinates with its presence.”

Slavoj Žižek, The Plague of Fantasies, 1997.

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“There is a difference between a short poem and a long poem in that a short poem ends with a kind of “click” - and you know when it’s done. But a long poem is an altogether different thing in that it emerges from a kind of machine of profusion and it can just keep going forever.”

Alice Oswald on BBC radio 4 “The Verb”

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“the thing I often tell my students is, you really have to fight, especially during the early stages of a process, to not know too much because you're logical, like the left side of your brain or whatever, is always going to be trying to get ahead of the process or sort of impose something familiar or something known onto what you're doing.

And it's gonna be less interesting than if you work in a more associative way, because then your unconscious is entering into the picture. So to me, like the idea of using generative AI to enact a concept, it's really almost a backwards way of thinking about how I think about art. I think when humans interact with those models, you're dealing with something that's basically competing with your own unconscious, right?”

Meghan O'Gieblyn

From The Gray Area with Sean Illing: Is AI creative?, 7 Oct 2024

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-gray-area-with-sean-illing/id1081584611?i=1000672029347

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“The radical avant-garde… wanted to completely break with nature in the name of the new industrial world, and with the mimesis of nature in the name of inventing new, unnatural forms of life. That is why the main artistic device of the avant-garde was the operation of reduction. Reduction opens a new perspective on the most effective reproduction - it is always easier to reproduce something simplified than something complicated.”

Boris Groys “In the Flow” 2016

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“Straight lines are the limit case of curves, not curves some special case of straight lines”

Dr Iain McGilchrist, CERN Lecture 2023: Perspectives on the nature of reality to inform systemic change.

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“Simplicity is the limit case of complexity.”

Dr Iain McGilchrist in his wide ranging & fascinating lecture: “perspectives on the natural of reality to inform systemic change.” CERN November 2023

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“Art is not an object, art is an experience.”

Josef Albers

Students and colleagues of Albers at Yale reflect on studying and working with the master.

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Howard Jacobson, BBC radio 4 a point of view

“Anyone who tells you they know where art comes from knows nothing. At the end of every day Picasso marvelled at what he’d made, so little of it bore relation to what he had intended to make.”

“We don’t have to invoke divine inspiration to explain this difference between the artist’s aims and the finished work - how much more bewildering when the individual gift for creation encounters the medium in which creation happens.”

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Art work deals with the problem of a piece of art, but more, it teaches the process of creating, the shaping out of the shapeless. We learn that no painting exists before it is done, no form before it is shaped. The conception of a work gives only its temper, not it’s consistency. Things take shape in material and in the process of working it, and no imagination is great enough to know before the works are done what they will be like.

Anni Albers: We Need the Crafts for their Contact with Materials, 1944