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April 8: I went ahead with my mosaic idea on the mathemaku I posted yesterday, after all--just to see what it would look like. I liked it so much, I'm only reproducing in in black and white here--in case I want to submit it toe Poetry--not as it is now, but improved. Actually, I don't think the words work well with the mosaic effect. I need something medieval for that--or am I thinking in duh box? Maybe I don't have to go medieval, but I can't do evolution in mosaic, it doesn't seem to me. |
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I broke my routine of doing something daily at Paint Shop yesterday because I the dead phone had me too down. But I went back to it this morning, even before I was back on the Internet, so I guess I do have some resilience. The mathemaku I made, I wanna emphasize, is a first draft. At the outset, I was only trying to see what I could do with the idea of making my piece as a mosaic. The words I initially chose were incidental, only. Then, I saw how I might fit them together by changing one or two of them slightly. The message I got seems much too overt to me: sunlight, as source of life, yields simple life-forms when "multiplied" by appetite--and those life-forms equal fish when ambition (interest in more than food and sex) is added to them. As I now work out the message--which I advise every poet to find in his poem, every poem having, finally, some kind of message unless asemic and thus, in my philosophy, not a poem--I question the idea that fish really having any higher ambitions, so may have to change either "fish" or "ambition."
I don't think this poem will work as a mosaic, so will probably not try to make it one. I still want to do a mosaic mathemaku, though.
I'm sure it's old news to those more experienced in illumagery and software like Paint Shop, but it's amazing how much you can learn about an illumage you've made by monochromatizing it. Same as looking at it upside-down or reversed, I supposed. But, no, I think you learn more. Anyway, I see things I don't like in the BW version that I missed in the colored version. Lots of blue in the colored version, by the way--the one thing that really works mosacially, I think--for the subjects, sky and water. I love mosacis, buy the way--the association with stained glass windows, and the way it allows one to avoid having to draw anything that requires skill to draw . . .
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