For a couple years I’ve been wondering how I might transform my idle “designs” (e.g.) into legitimate kalligrams, or objet d’art (or just into more interesting shapes) and this year I had a couple ideas, albeit somewhat vague and not yet acted upon ideas. (Note. These shapes can appear different than intended on different computer configurations — something I only dimly understand).
The first was to look at the Shapes as being avatars of a sort: I was to imagine them as markers of myself (or of somebody else) and around them I would need to put evidence of their interacting with the conceptual, and/or physical, and/or digital world, of which they were part. (To state it as a question: if the character of a person took this appearance, how must the character of the world that person exists in appear?)
The second idea was that I would start using something like this as the central image:
ar mad os armados Se e’rThe See’rThe See’rT he See’rThe See’r
…a””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;pC B
.d””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;bse
..e””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;eNol
l””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;rie
..a””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;Gslm
..n””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;eieie
..t””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;usnt
.o””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; E i
de””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;da
la””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;um
>s””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;C
enfrentamientos armados
This was to be my “viewing screen of perception”, as it were, a clearly framed and extremely simplified slide or core sample taken of my perceptions at a given time — which I will think of as having about the same level of graphics as the earliest video games, like Pong. For example, this is how I might represent my perception of a crosswalk:
ar mad os armados Se e’rThe See’rThe See’rT he See’rThe See’r
…a””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;pC B
.d””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;bse
..e””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;eNol
l””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;rie
..a””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;Gslm
..n; “”; “”;”crosswalk “”;eieie
..t””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;usnt
.o””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; E i
de””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;da
la””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;um
>s””; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”; “”;C
enfrentamientos armados
while, around the perimeter, perhaps intruding in, perhaps suggestive of viewing screens not one’s own, there would be things that exist but not necessarily as perceptions, mainly thoughts and thought fragments and perhaps also factual truths of which I was not directly conscious (geographic, meteorological, historical, biographical truths: heart rate, longitude and latitude, relative humidity, etc.)maybe also digital-physical things.
These ideas would seem to imply that I think the difference between a idle design and legitimate artwork is that the former is a thing perceived while the latter is the thing perceived plus information on the limits of perception, which I’m not sure about. But perhaps such prompts can be useful in taking the Shapes to another level.
.i`` * ^ / . . . . . ` `~ 