I’ve been using my street photography recently to spy on the goings on in Flatland. ‘Flatland‘ is a book written by the mathematician Edwin Abbott, about geometric creatures who live in a two-dimensional world. Parking lots are great places to see lines, circles and (dangerous) pointy triangles. The dotted rubber mat indicates that there is […]
Flatland was a book written by Edwin A. Abbott in 1884 about the life of geometric beings in their two-dimensional environment. Below is an aerial view of flatland, where a circle bumps into a blue rectangle, deforming it. Jagged lines pierce the blue and white rectangles. Lines are particularly problematic in Flatland, since they are […]
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 […]
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, […]
