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April 23: I've continued visiting Paint Shop and messing around at least once a day. The hope is that I'll suddenly go into a high gear and turn out ten or twenty great new poems, but that hasn't happened yet. At best, the result is like these two from yesterday's efforts:
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The top has promise I think but is completely wrong, too wrong to work. I just tossed "galleons" and some kind of flower into my long division set-up--on top of more simple play with colors. "Sextants" resulted from a kind of reasoning: I connected it to the flourishing of oceanic exploration--thought I now remember that sextants came quite a few years after galleons. My subdividend product came out of nowhere--an analytical geometry graph (that also resembled a sight) with its axes labeled as above. I like it. It will stay in the final version of this. I'm not sure what else will. Probably only "galleons" and something to do with flowers as the dividend. "Hibiscus blossoms" is okay, but I don't think the colors are right--even though I have hibiscuses growing just outside one of my windows. The remainder is just something to represent Nature.
The other image is a detail from one of the versions of the top piece. I like it, so hope to use it somewhere in a mathemaku. Note the contouring. Adding that is something new I've recently learned to do. I'm picking up stuff like that, but incredibly slowly. What I don't know about Paint Shop, and making illumages, remains twenty times as great as what I do know. But maybe I know enough for my aims.
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