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youtu.be/bQWjlkl2klw "Out of complexity emerges greater complexity. We could almost say that the universe, nature, is a novelty-conserving or complexity-conserving engine. It makes complexity and it preserves it and it uses it as the basis for further complexity." -Terence McKenna
Here is my 2021 close-up of this remarkable flower.
See my previous post for this year's life-cycle mosaic of it.
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The Sphere Within Sphere, also known as Sfera con Sfera, is a series of sculptures created by Italian sculptor Arnaldo Pomodoro depicting an enormous metal sphere with a cracked surface revealing an intricate interior with another cracked sphere inside.
Arnaldo Pomodoro says that the inner ball represents the Earth and outer ball represents Christianity. The design of the internal layers which look like the gears or cogwheels of a complex machine symbolizes the fragility and complexity of the world.
This sphere is at Trinity College in Dublin Ireland but it can be found at other prime location around the world. Originally created for the Vatican Church in the 1960s, also at the Headquarters of the UN in New York, The Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis, USA, The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, the Columbus Museum of Art in Columbus and the Tel Aviv University in Israel, to name a few.
The fifth in this series and trying to find some kind of balanced shot in this chaotic scene is difficult to this is as close as I could get, hence the title.
This Christmas bauble was hand beaded with sequins and pins by me. I have a Christmas tradition. I bead Christmas baubles for a select group of friends every year.
Each bauble is 15 centimetres in diameter and contain hundreds of sequins, varying in number depending upon the complexity of the pattern and the type of sequins I use. Most sequins in this bauble are 4mm in diameter, except the stars, which are 3mm, the raised flower cups (imported from France) which are 5mm, and the sunburst sequins which are 6mm. The sunburst sequins are French as well and are known as "éclate de soleil" - "sunbursts". Depending upon the colour of the sequin, I will use either a gold or a silver pin to attach it to the bauble. I always leave the "éclate de soleil" - "sunbursts" until last, allowing a gap in the sequin chain to pin them in.
These baubles are smaller than some others I do, and because it is a simple pattern which starts from the inside and is worked outwards in ever larger circles, each bauble takes approximately 1 1/2 to 2 hours per side.
It is however, a labour of love which I do to pass the time throughout the year.
Woodland shots are without doubt my favourite type of landscape images, both to take and to view.
I find them very difficult to execute, but I guess that's part of the attraction. It's often hard to simplify the complexity of neighboring elements, however I quite like all the different lines and colours in this image.
Croxby, Lincolnshire Wolds.
The image looks a whole lot better if you click on it to view it large!
For some reason the first line of an old John Prine song popped into my head. This is actually a mixture of ice, water, leaves of grass, and part of a cottonwood leaf, all jumbled into a rich stew of nutrients that will feed the new growth in my backyard in the weeks to come. Shooting straight down and very close.
It's a departure from the spare look of my ice shots over the past few days. No elegant, clean lines here. Usually I try for simplification, which maybe I could have found in the leaf itself... but I have lots of close ups of leaves, and thought I'd try something different, organizing the visual elements around complexity instead. I built in a bit of structure by placing objects - the leaf, blades of grass - along the left, bottom, and right sides, leaving the top side open. This was intentional.
Tomorrow I'll be cranking up the wayback machine and revisiting some of my favourite wilderness backpacking adventures from years past. I am grateful to my younger self for being willing to place one foot in front of the other for as long as it took to get into these amazing places. It was a huge part of my life for a quarter century. Ask my knees and back - they'll tell you it's true!
This shot was made in my backyard at the peak of snowmelt in April. Val Marie, Saskatchewan (Canada). Don't use this image on websites, blogs, or other media without explicit permission ©2023 James R. Page - all rights reserved.
"Complexity characterises the behaviour of a system or model whose components interact in multiple ways and follow local rules, leading to non-linearity, randomness, collective dynamics, hierarchy, and emergence.
The term is generally used to characterize something with many parts where those parts interact with each other in multiple ways, culminating in a higher order of emergence greater than the sum of its parts. The study of these complex linkages at various scales is the main goal of complex systems theory.
The intuitive criterion of complexity can be formulated as follows: a system would be more complex if more parts could be distinguished, and if more connections between them existed." (WP)
"La complexité caractérise le comportement d'un système ou d'un modèle dont les composants interagissent de multiples manières et suivent des règles locales, conduisant à la non-linéarité, au hasard, à la dynamique collective, à la hiérarchie et à l'émergence.
Le terme est généralement utilisé pour caractériser quelque chose comportant de nombreuses parties, où ces parties interagissent les unes avec les autres de multiples manières, aboutissant à un ordre d'émergence supérieur supérieur à la somme de ses parties. L’étude de ces liens complexes à différentes échelles constitue l’objectif principal de la théorie des systèmes complexes.
Le critère intuitif de complexité peut être formulé ainsi : un système serait plus complexe si plus de parties pouvaient être distinguées et s'il existait plus de connexions entre elles. » (WP)
The thought and the work by Pietro Consagra, born in 1920 and died in 2005, have a very special role in the aesthetic debate of the second half of the twentieth century for the complexity of the themes dealt with, the search for a new relationship between man, space, and sculpture, and for his proposed solutions to a concept of three-dimensionality defined by him as “the monumental matrix of a dead language”.
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Taken in our studio.
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I fell in love with this one and wore it everywhere for a few days!
Its a simple but elegant outfit with a short skirt. It comes with a transparency HUD, and is offered in the best ever range of textures, including a Christmassy one, in case you were planning on being unwrapped.
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Pose, set and lighting by Whims
Spent a lovely long weekend in an Auberge, South of Montreal in the townships. (thank you sister for hooking me up winter fun style) Took a number of shots while out on a snowshoeing adventure through thick forest and mini mountains. T'was a perfect day, with sun, no wind.