Wednesday, September 29, 2021
Pandemic Meditation Spring of 2020
This piece is a similar triangles poem that was inspired by the stress experienced during the pandemic of 2020. In January of 2022, The Journal for Humanistic Mathematics will be publishing a paper that analyzes this piece using the language of cognitive linguistics. For the Rule 42 show I am including a link to the submission here: A Cognitive View Of Pandemic Meditation
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The Caveat of Capitalism
This piece was done in the spring of 2020 and inspired by the politics of the day. It uses the similar triangles form.
In addition I spoke in detail about this piece published in Karie Ross's book, Artists, Art and Story. Purchase it here: clickhere
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Labels: 2020, Donald Trump, similar triangles poems
Shoebox Projects Call and Responce - Spring of 2020
This work was a collaboration between myself and Coleman Griffith sponsored by Shoeboxprojects of Los Angeles California. The method we used was that Coleman provided me a photo and I manipulated it and provided a mathematical poem to accompany the new image. I used the similar triangles form for all of the math poems.
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Labels: Coleman Griffith, similar triangles poems
The Heart Sutra in Similar Triangles
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Labels: similar triangles poems, The Heart Sutra
Disengendered
When trying to understand this person from a distance one experiences this person as normal yet, the closer one gets to this person the more difficult it is to make out their identity. This is the same experience one gets from looking at the drawing show here. From a distance it looks fine -- even to the point that you can tell the person is wearing glasses. Yet, up close it is hard to tell it is a person at all.
The mathematical poetic form used is a "Similar Triangles Poem" and you can find tools to understand the mechanics of this form here:Similar Triangles Poems. In the vernacular, the poem can be read as "The Lost Soul is to a Cosmic Nursery as Being On An Ocean Raft is to Times Square. (NYC) or it can be read as The Lost Soul is to Being On An Ocean Raft as the Cosmic Nursery is to Times Square.
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Labels: Birth of Stars, Gender, similar triangles poems
Poem for Niels Bohr
I have been really behind on my blog and am trying to catch up. This piece is a similar triangles poem done in December of 2019
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Labels: Luck, physics, similar triangles poems