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Comfort Zone

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Today’s watercolor experiment: Inspiration: I was still thinking about aging and diminishment of faculties as I was trying to decide what to paint today. The visual sense is very important to me so I view the loss of sight as a very scary, dangerous prospect. I though of Paul Klee‘s drawings. I don’t remember any specific […]

Paul Klee and Flatland

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Flatland It’s been a long time since I read Flatland by Edward Abbott. Abbott, Headmaster of City of London School, wrote this work of fiction in 1884. Abbott described a world that only existed in two dimensions. Strict class divisions and hierarchy were in force in Flatland. For instance, the female form was the line segment, […]

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