Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry XI (Heavenly Bodies)

behold this fool who, in the month of June,
having of certain stars and planets heard,
rose very slowly in a tight balloon
until the smallening world became absurd

E. E. Cummings

Europa

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry X

The ideas need not be complex. Most ideas that are successful
are ludicrously simple. Successful ideas generally have the
appearance of simplicity because they seem inevitable.

Sol LeWitt

John Latham, Full Stop, 1961, Acrylic on canvas

Marvels of Creatures and Strange Things Existing

Kitab Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa Gharaib al-Mawjudat

literally "The Wonders of Creation and the Curiosities of Existence", or

Marvels of Creatures and Strange Things Existing

Merchant from Isfahan Flying


Kitab Aja'ib al-makhluqat wa Gharaib al-Mawjudat, literally "The Wonders of Creation," compiled in the middle 1200s in what is now Iran or Iraq. The vibrantly illustrated work is considered one of the most important natural history texts of the medieval Islamic world.

Moon

you'll be beautiful in my manner

John Adams Whipple, View of the Moon, Feb 26, 1852 (Daguerreotype )

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The Moon’s Favors

Meanwhile, in the expansiveness of her joy,
the Moon filled all of the room like a phosphoric atmosphere,
like a luminous poison; and all of that living light thought and said:
“You will be eternally subject to the influence of my kiss.
You will be beautiful in my manner.

You will love what I love and who loves me:
water, the clouds, silence, and the night; the immense, green sea;
formless and multiform water; the place where you will not be;
the lover you will not know; monstrous flowers;
perfumes that make you delirious; cats who swoon on pianos,
and who moan like women, with a hoarse, gentle voice!

Charles Baudelaire

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Time Lapse - Milky Way

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Henry David Thoreau

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Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry VII

The World is Bound With Secret Knots - Athanasius Kicher

Laura Splan, machine embroidered lace based on the influenza virus



Barbara Mungenast, Kreis #2, 2006



Sheila Gallagher, Sea Urchin Smoke Print, 2009

Space Abstraction

Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.

Paracelsus

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Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry VI

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts

Mary Judge, Oculus Series

Siobhan Liddell, Untitled, 2009



Max Ernst, Birth of a Galaxy, 1969

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry IV

Beauty is truth, truth beauty — that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know

Trichodina pediculus



Burning Man 2010


Somewhere in Saudi Arabia (via Google Earth)

Heavenly Bodies

Objects that are so ancient that they precede not only humanity and intelligent life on the planet, but also any form of life known to us

“… then the land was consumed by fire and flames surrounded the trees, plants, animals and men. Only a few of the Mocoví people saw the fires coming and dove into rivers and lagoons, where they were turned into capybaras and crocodiles. Two of them, a man and his wife, sought refuge in a tall tree, where they looked on as the rivers of fire flooded the surface of the earth; but unexpectedly, the fire blew upwards and burned their faces and turned them into monkeys …”

From the Jesuit missionary Guevara, on the Mocoví myth on how the Sun fell from the sky (1764).

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry III

Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern
for beauty's sake and pulls it down to earth
Marston Morse

Damien Hirst, Psalm Print: Exaudi, Domine (diamond dust), 2009



The Hermaphrodite



Denis Maurice, Scale Model for the Cupola of the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées

Circles - Mandalas - Radial Symmetry II

Overcoming the Infinite

Tiny amoeba shell (picture from National Geographic Magazine)

Katina Kamatson, From Nine Flowers Series



Kirra Jamison, Not even i can save you