GYRES
I. Circle One
Antonio Gaudi
"Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round. In the old days when we were a strong and happy people, all our power came to us from the sacred hoop of the nation, and so long as the hoop was unbroken the people flourished."
Black Elk Speaks
"Golden Coil 2006-003"
Doug Craft
"Birds" Julia Watkins
"Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were. The life of a man is a circle from childhood to childhood and so it is in everything where power moves. Our tepees were round like the nests of birds, and these were always set in a circle, the nations hoop." Black Elk Speaks
Wassily Kandinsky
Daniel Taylor
"Each organic being is striving to increase in a geometrical ratio . . . each at some period of its life, during some season of the year, during each generation or at intervals, has to struggle for life and to suffer great destruction . . . " Charles Darwin
"Le dans" Henri Matisse
". . . This is necessary to close the circles of our felicities"
Thomas Jefferson
M.C. Escher
Creative people, people who like creative people, people who don't need to look the word "creative" up in the dictionary, people who do need to look up the word "creative" in the dictionary but have a vague understanding of what "creative" would indicate and aren't horrified.
Layout and Various Graphic Designs By Uggamagee™ Layouts & Such
II.Circle Two
"Oraculo"
Plutonian Enterprises
"Rays within a spun concolorous white wheel, the phrases
Interwoven down the left side of some poems, which might stay
Ghostly and unknown till pointed out."
Alice Fulton from "The Fractal Lanes"
Interior G.S. Ackerman
"My friend draws a circle in the dirt; inside, the caterpillar doesn't move.
She's always trying to make something whole, something beautiful, an image
capable of life apart from her."
Louise Gluck "Celestial Music"
Georgia O'Keefe
Zyll
"By the year twenty-one hundred," Richard said, "each person will have about one square yard of land to stand on, including all the deserts and mountain tops."
I know," my mother said, . . . "I see it coming. You can see it in Alton, the people are growing corners so they can fit in their little square yards better. People were meant to be round."
John Updike
Robert Mapplethorpe
"It was without a compeer among swindles.
It was perfect, it was rounded, symmetrical, complete, colossal.
Mark Twain
La Fonte di Tutto Colore
Jason Vincent Scarpace
III. Circle Three
Here's the larger question:
If a tree falls in the forest
and someone is there to hear it,
is it a cycle completed
or merely to be continued?"
Plutor 1988
Satoshi Sakamoto
Espiralli
"As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land." Isaiah 21:1
IV. Circle Four
Triplets II
Derek Andrews
"the plain, precise, and hard idea, therefore is not overthrown, but used as the step to further ideas growing from it. And these further, softer, less precise, and less material ideas are like tenderer, newer branches which pierce new holes in the air." Kandinsky
With the Waves
Natasha Wescoat
"Mankind will be enabled to experience first the spiritual in material objects and later the spiritual in abstract forms." Kandinsky
V.Circle Five
"I seek a form that my style cannot discover,"
Ruben Dario"Let us . . . cherish, therefore, the means of knowledge. Let us dare to read, think, speak, and write . . . Let every sluice of knwledge be opened and set a-flowing."
John Adams
Sprott Physics
Lynda Cole
"I have discovered that the Jews always have a story," he said. "Everything is in poetry or metaphor, or hypothetical or obscure or delivered in the form of an involved question. Life is short. Why is it that Jewish scholars treat time as if it did not exist and there was an eternity for discussion?"
"For the reason," said Joseph, "that time does not exist and there is an eternity for discussion."
Taylor Caldwell
VI. Circle Six
"Thus I have as my ideal not a pyramidal architecture (static state) but a sprial architecture (dynamism). This is why a body in movement is not for me a body studied when immobile and afterwards modeled as though it were in motion. It is, on the contrary, a body in movement, a living reality absolutely new and original." Boccioni
Boccioni
"My spiral, architectural construction creates before the spectator a continuity of forms which permit him to follow ideally (through the form-force sprung from the real form) a new, abstract contour which expresses the body in its material movements." BoccioniVII. Circle SevenLittenPodiak
Gertrude's Rose
"I have given thought to thought. In fact, I almost
ran. I accepted Platos' Theory of forms
with only one small quibble. I accepted Wallace
Stevens' premise of order in chaos. I accepted both Kant's and James's positions on the provability of God's existence. But now where do I go? Like Jarrell, I stand at the North Pole. Everywhere I turn it is still South . . . to life, to poetry. I put my faith in things which I see, and which, in turn, must see me. Surely the stars are not blind."
from "-What Is It About the Seasons That Interest You - Everything" by Ken Fontenot
by Misha Gordin