What Is A Great Image?

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Finite / InfiniteFinite / InfiniteIconic / ImmenseIconic / Immense

Mundane / TranscendentMundane / TranscendentBanal / Epic Banal / Epic

Singularity / MultiplicitySingularity / MultiplicityPart / WholePart / Whole

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In NatureIn Nature

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Φ Phi = 1 : 1.618

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My step father made me eat a plate of these when we were camping once…

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Hurricane Andrew in three positions, August 1992

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Spiral Galaxy NGC 1232

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The Cochlea

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All of that is to say:

There is pervasive geometry in the organic structure of the universe.

And in you.

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Tigris/EuphratesTigris/Euphrates

NileNile

AmazonAmazon

IndusIndus

GangesGanges

YellowYellow

MississippiMississippi

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Cultural Expressions

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Great Pyramid Complex at Giza – 2550 BC

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Nazca Lines of Peru – 1-700 CE

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Earhart - 1937

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The wreck of the Teignmouth Electron in the Cayman Islands, from a series by Tacita Dean in 1999 See the PBS documentary Deep Water and the book A Voyage for Madmen

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The Moon Shots – 1963 - 1972

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“Obviously a major malfunction” - January 28, 1986

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September 11, 2001

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Art Historical Expressions

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Pieter Claesz, Vanitas1630

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Adriaen van Utrecht, Vanitas1642

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Hans Baldung Grien, Death and the Maiden1517

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Matthias Grunewald, Crucifixion1515

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Bronze statue of Shiva as Nataraja, Lord of the Dance. Chola Period - 860 through 1280

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Vajravarahi Mandala, Tibet1800s

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Monk crafting a sand mandala – unique to Tibetan Buddhism since 2000 BC

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Western Portal Tympanum at Chartres Cathedral, The Second Coming1260

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Pontormo, Deposition of Christ1525

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Titian, The Transfiguration1560

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Henry Ossawa Tanner, Annunciation 1898

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Pop Culture

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Art - Contemporary

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Julie Mehretu, Excerpt

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Julie Mehretu, Untitled

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Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty

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Bill Viola, The Crossing

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Bill Viola, Five Angels For The Millennium

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Andy Goldsworthy, Untitled

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Andy Goldsworthy, Untitled

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Robert Irwin, The Discs

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Robert Irwin, The Discs

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Richard Serra, Joe

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Richard Serra, Band

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Jen Stark, Piece of an Infinite Whole

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Jen Stark, The Whole

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James Turrell, Skyspace at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, England

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James Turrell, Roden Crater

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James Turrell, The Artist with Roden Crater

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Julie Heffernan, Self Portrait as Booty

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Julie Heffernan, Self Portrait as Two Queens

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Matt Ballou, The Omen – Three Figures in a Landscape

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Matt Ballou, The Omen – Four Figures on a Height

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Matt Ballou, Self Portrait With the History of the World

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Matt Ballou, The Resonators

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Matt Ballou, Mandala

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Matt Ballou, Beneath Ahab’s Doubloon