Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Scrap Book 20
These three marks are found on the floor of the bathroom in Dorch 2nd left. I was struck by the symmetry of the marks, and the way that they balanced with the congruent tiles. It seems to me that, even though these marks were assumedly made by totally random processes, their symmetry, for some reason, implies an order, a non-randomness. And perhaps even more than that, some sort of designer, or sentient being behind the marks, responsible for the symmetry, to account for the coherence of the marks. But then again, Nature presents us with some of the most beautifully symmetrical, patterned things in the world, and it is usually man's attempt to create such beauty, or at least an ordered pattern of his own, that leads him to adapt these patterns that he finds in the natural world. They are not always geometrically sound or applicable, and this gives force to the argument that it is all in fact random. These marks on the floor were assumedly random, and are not exact in their symmetry anyways. But they are close enough to appear somewhat aesthetically pleasing, which is why I noticed them.
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