dlm wrote:

> How many closed circuits are there? One? More? Are they knotted? I
> see at least some superficial symmetry which would suggest at least
> two. If so coloring them differently would be truly instructive 

Too instructive!! I had a street-magician friend named "Magic Mike."
Magic Mike, when asked to repeat a trick, would always reply that "Once
is entertainment. Twice is education." There's no once ... twice in a
still picture, but the heart of his rule survives: over-exposition
destroys the magic.

And the magic is there for more than just bragging rights. Back in
February 2004, I posted the first in a "series" of pictures with the
intent of presenting my colors and lines with such extreme flourishes
that a viewer would be unable to dismiss my abstract images as
"something a child could do."

That 2004 picture was "magical" to me, and I thought I had correctly
identified the source of that magic as these flourishes. Now, I'm not so
sure. Slowly, through subsequent and even one previous work, I
identified the magic of iteration. So this idea from 2004 has split into
two branches: the flourish branch, which has become nearly all flourish,
and the iteration branch which has become so unflourished that it is no
longer appropriate for this group.

 -Shay

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