trees, branches, bifurcation

faciality

The face is probably the most obvious signifier. The only thing close to it would be language.
A Thousand Plateaus: 167

Fractals are both arbolic (since they involve branching) and rhizomatic (in that they involve nonlinearity). Thanks for that Donna.

tree of life

Family trees, the tree of life, humans (being roughly symmetrical forms) branch too; branches in the heart; the branching brain, branching blood. This is not an argument based on hierarchy. It is not even an argument. It is a position. Everyone has a space time address, and the heart has a magnetic field. What is your space time address? Where are you if you think of this page, when you're somewhere else? All addresses are relative. Connectedness might simply be a quantum state, too small to touch. It must be felt.

mandelbrot, julia sets, self similar across scales. deep in the heart (libchaber plus da vinci)

It is conventional to think of identity as related to unique signature; the 'essence' of the 'thing' in question. However, multiple measures can provide a unique portrait of any object. The number of T's used throughout any book gives a unique thumbprint of that book. The book can also be considered as part of fictional genre; how it functions to uphold or question socio-political hierarchies, the role it plays in perpetuating culture; in regard to it's position in a sequence of thoughts; it can be examined for the colour of it's language, the power of metaphor; for it's theft of allusion and illusion from diverse cultures. It could be evaluated in terms of how many people went mad after reading it; how many felt dissatisfied, or the number of times the book was read after midnight. All these measures give a unique portrait. A singularity in identity or essence is a misnomer, or at least an illusion. The question becomes how to map these multiple identities: that is one subject of this website.

The spearheads are artifacts from South Africa, photographed in National Geographic.

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virtual trees

Seven Quilts For Seven Sisters is a story that travels back to the old south and days of slavery in a performance featuring song, dance, history, stories, skits and quilts.