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On this Hillside…, Richard Long, 1972, MoMA: Drawings and Prints
On this Hillside…, Richard Long, 1972, …
Lines: A Brief History
Lines: A Brief History
a line made by walking
a line made by walking
Bas Van Wieringen
Circle, 2011
Drawing by a human body
Bas Van Wieringen Circle, 2011 Drawing …
CRI_69379.jpg
CRI_69379.jpg
the world of apu (1959)
the world of apu (1959)
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“Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life.”

“The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.”

source: Barry H. Gillespie

Our present idea of the labyrinth is the Borgesian structure of “forking paths,” the bewildering chaos of passages that lead in many directions but never directly to our desired goal. But there is also another kind, or paradigm, of labyrinths. Penelope Reed Doob, in her excellent discussion of physical and metaphorical labyrinths of classical antiquity and the Middle Ages (1990), distinguishes between two kinds of labyrinthine structure: the unicursal, where there is only one path, winding and turning, usually toward a center; and the multicursal, where the maze wanderer faces a series of critical choices, or bivia.

Espen J. Aarseth
An Iceberg's Meandering Path
An Iceberg's Meandering Path
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