tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769313965401202728.post1084992950982448719..comments2023-08-23T04:23:37.902-07:00Comments on 81/2 x 11: thread reading: Plato on my mind...henrietta (aka ani aka zani)http://www.blogger.com/profile/07233449217099900553noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769313965401202728.post-70344652827415744692011-12-06T12:40:56.156-08:002011-12-06T12:40:56.156-08:00well everything here except the cloth talk is way ...well everything here except the cloth talk is way over my head.judehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01514075228644109700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769313965401202728.post-60196756011524278972011-11-08T01:20:21.208-08:002011-11-08T01:20:21.208-08:00Profound indeed. I remind myself regularly that ev...Profound indeed. I remind myself regularly that everything I do online is not 'real' - hitting the delete button will make it all disappear in an instant. And yet the connections are very real. There are real people out there, beyond the ether, responding to words on a screen, offering real friendship and valuable insight. I'm guessing you must also be familiar with Jung's idea of Shadow? This cloth already has many layers.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769313965401202728.post-14694846052070744492011-11-07T08:48:05.405-08:002011-11-07T08:48:05.405-08:00Hi Ani,
I think that it takes a lot of courage...Hi Ani,<br /> I think that it takes a lot of courage to write about something that takes a tremendous amount of thought and may challenge our own conception of reality. I enjoyed reading this post, although feel I have only cracked the surface of what you are trying to convey as well as what Mo Crow added. Thank you for having the courage to talk about Reality and our Perception of Reality.<br /> This reminded me of the series of called Century of the Self. If you have not seen it I think that you would enjoy it and it relates to this post. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyPzGUsYyKM<br /><br />"To many in both politics and business, the triumph of the self is the ultimate expression of democracy, where power has finally moved to the people. Certainly the people may feel they are in charge, but are they really? The Century of the Self tells the untold and sometimes controversial story of the growth of the mass-consumer society in Britain and the United States. How was the all-consuming self created, by whom, and in whose interests?"<br /><br />The Cave by Plato influenced my quilt The Ties That Bind. This quilt was based on a story that I wrote about a girl that becomes part of a program. She finds that inside this computer, she is just one in a hive that they are studying. They study her by watching her play games that they have set up for her to play. She reverse engineers this by studying them by looking at the games and figuring out they are all win/ lose games. The Computer wins by absorbing your soul/life and you lose by never finding it.Snail Clothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12176159647332196184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769313965401202728.post-19420425287349338932011-11-06T23:15:35.066-08:002011-11-06T23:15:35.066-08:00Hello Ani, Your work is sooo beautiful, I just lo...Hello Ani, Your work is sooo beautiful, I just love seeing this piece progress. I am in awe. Marg. oxAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769313965401202728.post-81409454919808409442011-11-06T21:05:17.967-08:002011-11-06T21:05:17.967-08:00thank you Ani! you are going way deep...
Have bee...thank you Ani! you are going way deep... <br />Have been thinking a lot about signs and symbols, fascinated by the Voodoo nature of the Masonic symbols of the lightning rods on the rooftops of the Victorian terraces of the 1880's in the inner city districts of so many cities in the world & particularly here in Sydney where i live. Who influenced who? Many of the symbols were used by the alchemists in the 1600's and go way back to the ancient Egyptians and earlier. They speak of mystery, magic and wonder and & it is in their very long history of being mysterious that they develop deeper meaning (or not as the case may be!) <br />A favourite story about symbols and their power is by Jorge Luis Borges "Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius" (from the The Garden of Forking Paths 1941) here's an excerpt-<br />"Two persons are looking for a pencil; the first person finds it, but says nothing; the second finds a second pencil, no less real, but more in keeping with his expectations. These secondary object are called hrönir, and they are, though awkwardly so, slightly longer. Until recently, hrönir were the coincidental offspring of distraction and forgetfulness.".... <br />(and a bit further along)<br />... "The systematic production of hrönir (says Volume Eleven) has been of invaluable aid to archaeologists, making it possible not only to interrogate but even to modify the past, which is now no less plastic, no less malleable than the future. A curious bit of information: hrönir of the second and third remove- hrönir derived from another hrön, and hrönir derived from the hrön of a hrön- exagerrate the aberrations of the first; those of the fifth remove are almost identical; those of the ninth can be confused with those of the second; and those of the eleventh remove exhibit a purity of line that even the originals do not exhibit. The process is periodic: The hrönir of the twelfth remove begin to degenerate. Sometimes stranger and purer than any hrön is the ur- the thing produced by suggestion, the object brought forth by hope.".... <br />(and this thought has stayed with me for 30 years ever since I first read this story)<br />"Things duplicate themselves on Tlön; they also tend to grow vague or "sketchy", and to lose detail when they begin to be forgotten. The classic example is the doorway that continued to exist so long as a certain beggar frequented it, but which was lost to sight when he died. Sometimes a few birds, a horse, have saved an amphitheater."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769313965401202728.post-67774101554416919882011-11-06T20:06:00.109-08:002011-11-06T20:06:00.109-08:00ani,
oh my, your work is wonderful. it touches ...ani, <br /><br />oh my, your work is <i>wonderful</i>. it touches me deeply... <br /><br />i am waving and feeling very grateful...<br /><br />xoxo<br /><br />lynnelynne hhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00682812765012431260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769313965401202728.post-15647677640136615692011-11-06T18:28:29.556-08:002011-11-06T18:28:29.556-08:00dearest Ani...as the king said to Mozart...
i like...dearest Ani...as the king said to Mozart...<br />i like it, but too many notes.<br /><br />so..yes, but at this point in my life, it<br />makes <br />"my head swim"<br />the words,<br /><br />but your cloth, oh....your cloth....oh and<br />Ahhhhhhgrace Forrest~Maestashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15853978388902544613noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769313965401202728.post-50222418715270176182011-11-06T18:08:07.612-08:002011-11-06T18:08:07.612-08:00EUREKA! took many tries. all iI have to do now i...EUREKA! took many tries. all iI have to do now is remember how to do it!.. MargAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769313965401202728.post-12576551784210913782011-11-06T18:04:26.024-08:002011-11-06T18:04:26.024-08:00TESTINGTESTINGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4769313965401202728.post-21559424190270988522011-11-06T17:43:37.273-08:002011-11-06T17:43:37.273-08:00holy s...what a post. When I scrolled down to see ...holy s...what a post. When I scrolled down to see the image on SEW just now, I was instantly looking for that figure on the left (who was there before, afterall) and thought s/he was gone when I saw the rectangle-I looked at the rectangle long enough to think s/he had gone inside it- for real, laugh at me if you must! Then I saw the shadow and had to come over here...and now I want to tell you that I was sad when I heard they went back in the cave. And as for this simulacrum- eek, this may be why I can only fixate on 'process' and not 'product'. What a great place you have here.Graciehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11546622664464021767noreply@blogger.com