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Factory Floor: Aesthetics of the Iconosphere Itself

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               {The Choice of Manual Construction Methods}
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i am essentially creating a canvas of TEXT

out of which i shall draw (take, extract, cut, etc) a number of
things which i shall then form into "sculptural" and "textual" (ie, rough, smooth, flowing, time invariant, etc)
forms... ie, the actual art works formed as part of the over all thing.




The Choice of Manual Construction Methods

Even a brief contemplation of the *extent* of the iconosphere's
basic structure (8 axis x 8 axis gives 64 simple cross products,
and x 8 again 512, etc) indicates that the *strucutre* of the
files involved must give one pause as to their "layout".

Obviously, a tool (script + script-processing-program) could be
devised to create the files (and/or even maintain them; in fact
a miniture database management system (DBMS) could have been
implemented in (eg) SQL (Structured Querry Language - a sort of
"lingua franca" (Latin: "French Language" - figuratively: A universal
language, mainly of diplomacy) for data base design and manipulation.

But.

As i began to work through the task at hand, it struck me that much
of my *traditional* art works (printmaking, installation, collage,
patining, and of course "the million" - ie: drawing (ink on paper)),
lent itself mostly of one nature in terms of my aesthetic sense/
purpose in my work:  Texture, Effort (physical/mental/emotional/etc),
and of course HYPER-medial; ie, you SEE the hand of the artist. 

As such, the iconsophere and all of its files have been using only
the text editor. All folders, files, file-names, structures, etc
have ONLY used cut and paste as well as the REPLACE function of
the text editor. And all of this from the "lowly" pen, er, ahhm,
"NotePad" editor. And ostensibly, much of the work on a rather
old laptop that doesn't have the -^_6 keys working on the keyboard
(nor the DEL key but, that's a minor problem).

So, there it is; this is the first block of this file. So, what
in Zarquon's singing goat is it doing down here? dun-gnough.




The Choice of Manual Construction Methods