1969
ink on graphite paper
11 x 8 1/2 inches
Gift of Christopher and Cheri Sharits, 2006
Sci American Sept 64 Re: ISOTROPIC LINEARITY
(cycles, etc)
"mathematics, for all its usefulness is organizing thought and advancing the works of man, does not offer truths but is a man made fable having the semblance of a fact", 67
a Euclidian straight line is "infinite" but: "it is not":
"Experience tells us only that in following a strait line we do not come to an end. But neither would one come to an end if one followed the Equator of the earth. In other words, experience tells us only that the strait line is endless or unbounded.
to expedite consciousness-permutations, make a sound field/ order it according to the results of imaginative + nearly physical flights of the spirit. spirit voices.
magnitte, magnitte!
(It may be useless , unperceivable, meaningless etc ( the web of structure relations) but it is, nevertheless, "there", "true"--( "true" not in what it says but "true" in that it says itself) ) <---This is "order", not "truth" 6*6=6*6
[V-15 " There are no causal connections in a calculation, only the connections of the pattern..."
Wittgenstein MATHEMATICS pg 173 e ]
Wittgenstein:
I-38: 2=2=4 x x + 2+2+2=4 x x
x x x x