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Book of the Uppermost page 4b
Michelangelo Zetterquist
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A negative digital photo of my sketch.
Hypatia, a Greek word meaning Uppermost. Hypatia is a great scholar AD 350-70?; died March 415 . She was a co-creator of the revolutionary concept of Heliocentrism, the idea that the earth and all other planets revolve around the sun. She was lecturer at the great library of Alexandria and was a witness to its destruction in her lifetime. Shortly afterward she was murdered by the same angry mob. Hypatia has been presented as the Sphinx with a great library built up inside of it. One of the seven wonders of the ancient world The Lighthouse of Alexandria has been built proverbially onto her head. It has been written by ancient sources that Hypatia was the inventor of the astrolabe which I will most likely place above the tower to show that her ideas were a source of light. So I will be sitting around picturing the sketch in every way. As if a crew came in and dismantled it and shuffled it into categories and on and on. Bending it in on its self, making it fall out of the sky and collect like rain and dew evaporating in the ecosystem to do it all again. Somewhere in the middle of this I saw a negative of it but it wasn't what I wanted because I liked the original sketch too much to completely change it. So I had this idea of selecting and dragging a portion of the white image onto a copied and negative image of the sketch. When you do that it sits with pulsating dotted lines on the dark image then I just lined up the black details to perfectly match the white and hit enter. Really disgustingly simple but I believe many sublime ideas must grow out of chaos but are pristine and simple in design. I kind of like the simple pristine idea inside of it's soil of chaos like a flower growing out of fertilizer.
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