On the Nazca Spider and Orion
Among the many astronomical readings proposed for the Nazca lines, the most compelling — and most contested — concerns the spider figure. The Nazca spider, approximately 46 metres…
Fragments, references, and materials
On Paleolithic Cosmology and the Limits of Knowing
The argument that the Paleolithic painters were encoding astronomical information — the Pleiades in the Lascaux bull, the summer triangle in the shaft scene, Orion in the arrangem…
On the Behavior of Lapis in Cold
A detail that belongs in the record: lapis lazuli pigment suspended in walnut oil behaves differently in cold conditions than in warm. In a cold studio — below about fifteen degre…
On the Dongba Script
The Naxi Dongba script of Yunnan Province in southwestern China is the only pictographic writing system still in active liturgical use anywhere in the world. Its symbols — roughly…
On Asemic Writing and the Exhaustion of Language
The renewed interest in asemic practice — not just as an art form but as something closer to a cultural symptom — is not difficult to explain. We are living in a period of unprece…
Note 056 — Fragment
The rune Hagalaz — the hail rune, the disruption, the sudden change that arrives without invitation — looks like the letter H with a diagonal bar. It was carved into wood and ston…
On Merleau-Ponty and the Lived Body
Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s account of the body as the primary site of perceptual experience — prior to and constitutive of any cognitive processing — is the philosophical frame…
On the Coincidence of Forms Across Traditions
There is a family of circular forms with a central point — a circle with a dot at its center — that appears in Egyptian hieroglyphics (Ra, the sun), in Pythagorean cosmological di…
On What Glyphoreum Is Becoming
The platform was conceived as a container for the practice — a place where the studio work, the scholarly inquiry, and the private thinking that connects them could coexist withou…
Note 060 — Fragment
There is a theory in information science that a signal becomes noise when it cannot be distinguished from the background. The mark-maker’s equivalent: a form becomes invisib…