I decided to hunt for some symmetry of my own. This is what I found. man-made symmetries, things we've convinced ourselves are pleasing to the eye. I can't help but wonder how different our world would look if we had chosen to like asymmetry more.
These benches are not the same. But their images are somehow symmetrical. Could it be the reflective symmetry that was created when the second bench was flipped?
I think we like symmetry because it seems to balance. When the world is symmetrical, we don't fear that we'll tip over.
2 comments:
But if we tip over, isn't that just another way of balancing what was so asymmetrical when we were standing upright?
Nor that the universe will,
repetition as a form of assurance against useless error
worth repeating
so on so many scales, at so many moments
--temporary yet
but recurrence in various configuration
across and within flexible dimensionalities
Increased likelihood that the parts do fit, that there are multiple possible configurations
in which the participating, interacting parts (all of them configurations of tines)
fit.
Post a Comment