I consider the shapes of actions and thoughts–how particular formations are often assigned either positive or negative value; how they are associated with either progress or regression; how the meaning of things–shapes included–are situated within cultural and historical contexts.
I focus my musings on squares and circles–linearity and circularity, respectively. I carve my thoughts into a micro-text–List(less). It appears in unFold–a California-based Twitter-zine edited by Rose Auslander and published by Folded Word Press. The zine features “poems/stanza’s in 140 characters or less”.
Here it is:
I like this idea of the shape of thoughts. Re the poll, I immediately thought, well, when? It depends right? So I voted “none of the above,” thinking “blob,” definitely, right now, but if I had to pick one of the listed I found myself drawn to the triangle. But not an equilateral one, maybe an isosceles or scalene. This is all I remember from high school geometry. :)
Blob. I like that one.
Some more shapes, as follows:
concave polygon
constructible polygon
convex polygon
cyclic polygon
equiangular polygon
equilateral polygon
regular polygon
Penrose tile
polydrafter
balbis
henagon
digon
triangle
acute triangle
anticomplementary triangle
equilateral triangle
excentral triangle
medial triangle
obtuse triangle
rational triangle
right triangle
30-60-90 triangle
isosceles right triangle
Kepler triangle
quadrilateral
cyclic quadrilateral, tetrachord
kite
parallelogram
rhombus (equilateral parallelogram)
Lozenge
rhomboid
rhombus
tangential quadrilateral
trapezoid
isosceles trapezoid
pentagon
regular pentagon
Lemoine hexagon
heptagon
regular octagon
nonagon
decagon
regular decagon
hendecagon
dodecagon
hexadecagon
icosagon
swastika
star without crossing lines
star polygon
hexagram
star of David
heptagram
octagram
star of Lakshmi
decagram
pentagram
annulus
arbelos
circle
disc
Archimedes’ twin circles
Bankoff circle
circumcircle
excircle
incircle
nine-point circle
circular sector
circular segment
crescent
ellipse
various lemniscates
lune
oval
Reuleaux polygon
rotor
lens, vesica piscis (fish bladder)
Reuleaux triangle
salinon
semicircle
sphere
tomoe, magatama
triquetra
Yin-Yang
Archimedean spiral
astroid
deltoid
ellipse
super ellipse
tomahawk
etc.
Hi wonderful! Arbelos excircle Yin-Yang digon tomahawk!
I’m going to go for the “lozenge!” (today.)
That’s funny:-)
That is an impressive list :)