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AFTER RE-READING ALBERT GLEIZES' CUBISME - ESSAI DE GÉNÉRALISATION
The point that
as zero contains
the potentiality of all
the dimensions isn't
the point that,
multiplied can produce
a virtual reality - a fake
simulacrum
of the appearance
of everything.
I, for example, feeling
the need to realise
(not just to fill)
space, draw
a line. What animal
ever thought
of doing that? The line
did not exist.
Now it exists.
Where did it come from?
The foot print of a tiger
comes from the tiger's
foot. Something
comes from something.
My line
has come from
an intention, which is to say
no material thing,
which is to say
nothing - and so
I am the point,
the zero that contains
the potentiality of all
the dimensions - and so
out of me evolves
even as I sit
alone in my house
a Universe.
Do we not all
carry this
strange responsibility?
Responsibility of the seed
free to decide
the shape
of the tree?