Open To Interpretation
From Colombia, Amazon Rock Art
pic from blog post July 30, 2018
Notes: welp, they are about to obsolete the radio telescope in Puerto Rico...hurricane damage and neglect being such...a lament has gone up, and effort to rehab it...I got to thinking, a whimsy, once, to make a reflective telescope lens...I'd put a pendulum out in the back yard, kinda like the Pit and the Pendulum!, and the blade would carve out the concave shape, or at least a measure of how dig to deep here and there...trouble was the lens would be rooted to the ground (to say nothing of how I was to cast the lens in the concave hole!), and could just see small sections of the night sky overhead passing over the telescope...charm of the whimsy was that the lens could be really really big...looking about, the history of lens making, I happened on the Puerto Rico telescope-watched the James Bond flic with it, and, and, 'nothing new', my idea has been done, my thought...still a neat idea...anyway, anyway, in the news yesterday was the story of the Rock Art in the Amazon, in a remote, and dangerous, area of Columbia...motif hounds saw this Rock Art and noted this, and that, and that, and this..."Ambiguity" the word from a browse of an artist glossary of terms...yep...motifs are first and foremost ambiguous...the handprints are everywhere in the ice age caves and such...what to think of those?...among the north American Indians, they would put handprints on their ponies-mementos of combats and hunts...and, and horses were about in the Americas during the Ice Age, but no one seems to have ridden them...maybe like Zebras they were too wild...I dunno...and, and then there's the border motifs...these I see often on the old mosaics...and on things in the Old and New Worlds...a bunch of on and ons in the posts...and as it happens these borders resemble oscilloscope patterns...radio waves...were the Amazonians in their dream journeys seeing radio waves?!...geometric patterns a common report from the alternate realities...even just everyday experience can see such...sunlight on water does all kinds of things...wind waves too...see if I can snag a pic of the Amazon Rock Art...no luck...they're there...just do a google image search amazon colombia rock art...said to be eight miles of them...the "square wave" is among them...that's like just a smidgen away from greek keys and step frets...in fact, that exact motif is on a lot of Greek and Roman things...browsing other things, I happened on such a border in the Vatican's "basement"...no luck snagging that one either..."luck" being copyright free...the block wave, the radio name; in architecture, and mosaic borders, and such, it is called 'dentil'...as in teeth...which to think of it, is what it looks like, upper and lower teeth...Indians thought the Yosemite monoliths looked like teeth...maybe that was what the "ambiguity" was 12,000 years ago in the Amazon!...link to earlier blog post:
http://treeinthedoorvideo.blogspot.com/2018/07/oti73018.html
:)
DavidDavid
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