I Showed my work again in Monday's session, all of my work from last week, and the only thing that seemed to drawn any one attention was this piece;
(can be found in blog entry 10) Now, I hated this piece. Although it looks simple, it took along time to make, for a very unexceptional piece of work. I had written it off an moved on. But with the comments made, (for a little while at least) I will return to this idea. Possibly not in exactly the same way, although some one said that this was similar to stars in the night sky, coming back to the theme of the universe...I have though about some how merging/incorporating this into my image of the hexagonal universe..?
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| Experimentation in Photoshop - Entire Borges text, focusing on the letters MCV |
This also took along time to make, however, with this piece it feels justified. This works quite well, but now I've done it, what do I do next?
I also just spent the best part of my afternoon trying to make a .gif, which has just not worked at all...it was going to be like the above image, but the letters tumbling down the page on a loop. maybe ill have another go at it another day, but after spending a whole afternoon trying to make this work I am reluctant. I might have to practice by making a simple one, perhaps with some images of me banging my head against a brick wall.
Yesterday, I started thinking about MVC. Why had Borges chosen that? At first I thought it could be roman numerals, but after trying to convert it, I realised that it doesn't work. I then started looking into the symbolism of it all.
Symbolism of M:
- Masculine and feminine (chalice and the blade)
- Symbol of water (Aquarious, chalice)
- Hebrew = 'Meme' transition between night and day/life and death
- Most devine/sacred letter
- In hebrew and latin M symbolises a number that cannot be counted
- 13th letter of the alphabet
Symbolism of V:
- Symbol for vagina/chalice
- the devil
- victory
- (hand gesture) to be violated by the devil
- Pan- androdgynous god of fire
Symbolism of C:
- An incomplete circle
- Sleep cycle
- 100
- 3rd letter of the alphabet (9 and 12 multiples of)
- the moon
-the first letter of christ
Symbolism of hexagons:
- Centre of the star of David
- 666 the devil/the triple goddess, the power of three (6 points, six sides)
- hex: spell
- masculine and feminine symbols together
- Sacred geometry (look at Mark Goulding later)
But did Borges intend any of this??? or is it just random and nonsensical like the library? he also refers to circles (life/death/creation) and fruit (birth/seed/woman) although there is no references of woman in the library, she is there in the symbolism, but was any of it intentional? Are women in the library a myth, perhaps? After all of this, I still don't understand why Borges chose MVC, surely it can't just be random?
I've thought about trying to incorporating some of this into my work, but God knows how...
But i'm coming around to the idea of pulling out small bits of the text like i have done in the pieces on this post, making it illegible, like a code to be broken, as is described in the text.
I shall have another crack at this tomorrow, hopefully I will have a more productive day.
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