{"id":3516,"date":"2014-11-09T09:05:07","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T16:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/?p=3516"},"modified":"2014-12-31T11:51:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-31T18:51:49","slug":"attention-alphabets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gemtactics.net\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/attention-alphabets\/","title":{"rendered":"attention alphabets"},"content":{"rendered":"

I enjoy making digital crops of scans of painted\/collaged papers. They are almost always more intriguing than the full pieces I have worked over. There’s a captivating randomness for how those small elements ended up next to each other, which is always a surprise. Sometimes I crop different areas of the same piece, but find there is always one that seems most pleasing. This is a kind of attention. <\/p>\n

\"g's<\/a>

g’s rising<\/p><\/div>\n

\"a<\/a>

a pile of o’s<\/p><\/div>\n

\"cloud<\/a>

cloud of s’s<\/p><\/div>\n

\"crop<\/a>

a piece of PRIVACY<\/p><\/div>\n

VAC is recurring. Vacation. Vache. Voice. Vacuuming. From Wikipedia: <\/p>\n

V\u00c4\u0081k or V\u00c4\u0081c (stem v\u00c4\u0081c-, nominative v\u00c4\u0081k) is the Sanskrit word for “speech”, from a verbal root vac- “speak, tell, utter”.<\/p>\n

Personified, V\u00c4\u0081k is a goddess; in the Veda she is also represented as created by Prajapati and married to him; in other places she is called the “mother of the Vedas” and wife of Indra. In Hinduism, she is identified with Bharati or Sarasvati.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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