While I was in NYC to take down the show I met John Sims at the Bowery Poetry Club. (Photo above) We discussed the upcoming event on mathematical graffiti for which Richard Kostelanetz, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Stephane Strickland, Bob Grumman and myself will be performing in some capacity – not sure what I will be doing but, I will keep you informed. The photo below is the Recent show of Sol LeWitt - Adrian Piper that John put together at the Club.
The video below is John Sims talking about the upcoming events at the Bowery Poetry Club in NYC. My apologies to John for the poor sound quality. If you are on facebook you can follow John at: http://www.facebook.com/rhythmofstructure
While I was in NYC to tear down the show Geof Huth and his family met me at the gallery. It was my first meeting with Geof and I enjoyed it greatly. We had a great discussion and he took many pictures of the installation. Above is a shot that his wife Nancy took of us.
Here is a wonderful shot that Geof took of me among the spheres.
Below is a video which shows some tools to help access the piece. Eventually I am going to write a paper that will make things even more clear as to the mechanics of this piece however it is down the road a bit. For now here are the verses of the Dodecorthogonal Space Poem: (which are Orthogonal Space Poems in themselves - poems within a poem) The non-recognizable words at the end of each line are fabricated due to no word in the English language that represents the value of the equation; therefore the meaning of each word is derived only through mathematics.
Emptiness times Monasticism = Apecksuval Emptiness times Existence = Doalldoxuval Emptiness times Non-existence = Nonalldoxuval Thinking times Urbanity = Selcrasaval Thinking times Monasticism = Taoodoxuval Thinking times Existence = Wastconditival Thinking times Non-existence = Dreemholeval Existence times Urbanity = Natucrasaval Existence times Monasticism = Onkeval Non-existence times Urbanity = Boidasval Non-existence times Monasticism = Onkeval
The Dodecorthogonal Space Poem is a ‘mathematical poem’ constructed with twelve ‘Orthogonal Space Poems’ arranged contiguously within a Cartesian coordinate system. Orthogonal Space Poems are always in the form of ‘A’ equals ‘B’ multiplied by ‘C’. What is different in this new work is that one of the variables in each poem is a fabricated word whose meaning comes from the mathematical operation applied to the other two variables (words). The words were carefully chosen to point to a spectrum inspired by Zen teachings. Thus, the aesthetic value of the piece is derived from visualizing the meaning of all the concepts spread throughout the entire three dimensional space.
The following URL will take you to a page that has some images of a “computer aided design mockup” showing the main structure of the installation: http://www.kazmaslanka.com/RogerSmith.html
The following statements are to help navigate the installation: The yellow ball is the point of origin for the entire system. The white balls define the axes (notice there are three axes) The green balls are points in space which represent the meaning of a concept which lies on one of the ‘word axes’. A word axis is a one dimensional line drawn between two concepts in space. In a three dimensional space you may have three ‘word axes’. The three word axes in this installation are “Emptiness / Thinking”, “Existence / Non-existence” and “Monasticism / Urbanity” The red balls are points in space to delineate the coordinate pairs for which the orthogonal space poem starts. The poem lies on the planer space that lies between the red ball, the two adjacent green balls and the yellow ball.”
Here are the verses again however it is important to note that these verses really don't exist on the page they exist as rectangles in space at a particular location in the Cartesian coordinate system.
Emptiness times Urbanity = Socrastival Emptiness times Monasticism = Apecksuval Emptiness times Existence = Doalldoxuval Emptiness times Non-existence = Nonalldoxuval Thinking times Urbanity = Selcrasaval Thinking times Monasticism = Taoodoxuval Thinking times Existence = Wastconditival Thinking times Non-existence = Dreemholeval Existence times Urbanity = Natucrasaval Existence times Monasticism = Onkeval Non-existence times Urbanity = Boidasval Non-existence times Monasticism = Onkeval
The theory for this piece can be understood within the body of my paper on Verbogeometry found here
