Paul Sharits (1943-1993)

EXPLANATIONS/ SUSPICIANS

I - Why 6 screens?
- to generate concept of flow/stream rather than the element water.
- need at least 2 screens: one which affirms the elements
"water" and one affirming the element film-going-past-lens.
- need space for undulating sound current-lines.

II - Why not 5 screens?
           because then divisional points are included in the map
                                  ---- ---- ---- ---- ----= 1/2 = differntiates 1 part form the other 4 parts
                    Whereas
                                  ---- ---- ----/---- ---- ---- = 1/2

Wittgenstein MATH: pg 47
I-165.   What, then--does it [math logic] just twist + turn about within these
rules?--It forms ever new  rules: as always building new
roads for traffic; by extending the network of the old ones.
I-166.  But then doesn't it need a sanction for this? Can it extend
the network arbitrarily?  Well, I could say: a mathematician is
*   always inventing new forms of description.  Some, stimulated by
practical needs, others, from aesthetic needs, --and yet others in a
variety of ways.   And here imagine a landscape gardner
designing paths for the layout of a garden; it may well be that
he draws them on a drawing board merely as ornamental
*   strips without the slightest though of someone's sometime walking
on them.
I-167.   The mathematician is an inventor, not a discoverer."