I don't think I've written a proper post about it yet but I have returned to this idea of perfection over and over, lately.
I think this idea of simplicity is the same as my idea of perfection.
Or, they are both becoming one another.
~ simplistic art, elegant art may be relevant?
I'll need to go back for another quote from earlier, something I found very evocative, at least in context.
I will strip the context from it and hope it maintains its force when I come back to it later.
Alexander is writing about symmetry.
P. 475
. . . things which are similar must be similar, and things which are different must be different. Or . . .
. . . more precisely: The degree of similarities which exist in a structure must correspond exactly to the degree of similarity of the conditions there, and the degrees of differences which exist in a structure must also correspond to the degrees of difference in the conditions there. . . .
P. 472, 474-475
. . . a harmonious structure . . . is one whose internal similarities and differences correspond exactly to the degrees of similarity and difference that exist in its conditions. That is the best definition of simplicity. Consider the shape of a soap bubble. When . . . floating in the air, it roughly has the shape of a sphere. . . . there is one simple explanation [for this], more fundamental than all the others. It is simply this. The air pressure on the inside of the bubble presses out with equal force in all directions. The same is true of the air pressure outside the bubble, pressing in. It presses with equal strength all over the bubble. Under these circumstances the bubble must take on the form of a sphere, because a sphere is the only volume-enclosing shape whose surface is the same at every point.
I think this idea of simplicity is the same as my idea of perfection.
Or, they are both becoming one another.
~ simplistic art, elegant art may be relevant?
I'll need to go back for another quote from earlier, something I found very evocative, at least in context.
I will strip the context from it and hope it maintains its force when I come back to it later.
Alexander is writing about symmetry.
P. 475
. . . things which are similar must be similar, and things which are different must be different. Or . . .
. . . more precisely: The degree of similarities which exist in a structure must correspond exactly to the degree of similarity of the conditions there, and the degrees of differences which exist in a structure must also correspond to the degrees of difference in the conditions there. . . .
P. 472, 474-475
. . . a harmonious structure . . . is one whose internal similarities and differences correspond exactly to the degrees of similarity and difference that exist in its conditions. That is the best definition of simplicity. Consider the shape of a soap bubble. When . . . floating in the air, it roughly has the shape of a sphere. . . . there is one simple explanation [for this], more fundamental than all the others. It is simply this. The air pressure on the inside of the bubble presses out with equal force in all directions. The same is true of the air pressure outside the bubble, pressing in. It presses with equal strength all over the bubble. Under these circumstances the bubble must take on the form of a sphere, because a sphere is the only volume-enclosing shape whose surface is the same at every point.