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PEARL PARK SCRIPTURES

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    Glyphs for "existence"  in "Pearl Park Scripture - O"
    Zeichen für "existence" in der Pearl Park Scripture -"O"

    Tao Te Ching, Lao-Tzu.

 Pearl Park Scriptures  2004 - 05

Text arrangement:

The text is arranged without spaces in Glyph translations.

Der Text ist in ohne Zwischenräume in Zeichen übersetzt angeordnet.

Algorithmic pen & ink drawings, 20" by 30" (50 cm by 76 cm)

Note on the texts:
Some of the glyph characters are translations of specific texts while others are arranged
with a syntax similar to language but do not carry rational meanings.  For text translations the code generated a glyph for each character. The presentation omits spaces between words reading from left to right for each column. 

 

 


 

Pearl Park Scripture - G,2004

Text:  Non-rational glyphs

Format: 224 characters, 8 characters per line, 14 lines per column, 2 columns.
              224 Zeichen,
8 Zeichen pro Linie, 14 Linien pro Kolonne, 2 Kolonnen.

 

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Pearl Park Scripture - O, Lao Tzu, 2004
Text:
So it is that existence and non-existence give birth the one to (the idea of) the other; that difficulty and ease produce the one (the idea of) the other; that length and shortness fashion out the one the figure of the other; that (the ideas of) height and lowness arise from the contrast of the one with the other; that the musical notes and tones become harmonious through the relation of one with another; and that being before and behind give the idea of one following another.

Format:
9 characters per line, 14 lines per column, 2 columns
             
9 Zeichen pro Linie, 14 Linien pro Kolonne, 2 Kolonnen.
Source
/ Quelle: Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu, J. Legge translation 

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Pearl Park Scripture - P, Galileo, 2004 
Text: Philosophy is written in this grand book -- I mean the universe -- which stands continually opened to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. --- Galileo Galilei, 1623

Format: 224 characters, 8 characters per line, 14 lines per column, 2 columns.
              224 Zeichen, 8 Zeichen pro Linie, 14 Linien pro Kolonne, 2 Kolonnen.

Source / Quelle: Galileo Galilei, Il Saggiatore, 1623 

 


 

Pearl Park Scripture - I, 2004 with gold leaf enhancement 

Text:  Non-rational glyphs

Format:
224 characters, 8 characters per line, 14 lines per column, 2 columns.
              224 Zeichen,
8 Zeichen pro Linie, 14 Linien pro Kolonne, 2 Kolonnen.

Click here for text arrangement

Pearl Park Scripture - EE, Apache, 2004
Text:
THE EMERGENCE. In the beginning the people were coming up. He made a mountain that continued to increase in height. Then he caused reeds to stand vertically in the center. The people were gathered about the mountain watching

Format: 224 characters, 8 characters per line, 14 lines per column, 2 columns.
             
224 Zeichen, 8 Zeichen pro Linie, 14 Linien pro Kolonne, 2 Kolonnen.

Source / Quelle: Jicarilla Apache Texts by Pliny Earle Goddard, New York: Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History, Vol. VIII. [1911]
 

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Pearl Park Scripture - L, Genesis, 2004 
Text:
1:1 in principio creavit Deus caelum et terram 1:2 terra autem erat inanis et vacua et tenebrae super faciem abyssi et spiritus Dei ferebatur super aquas 1:3 dixitque Deus fiat lux et facta est lux1:4 et vidit Deus lucem quod esset bona et divisit lucem ac tenebras 1:5

Format: 224 characters, 8 characters per line, 14 lines per column, 2 columns.
             
224 Zeichen, 8 Zeichen pro Linie, 14 Linien pro Kolonne, 2 Kolonnen.

Source / Quelle: Bible, Latin Vulgate, Genesis 1,1-4. 


 

Pearl Park Scripture - FF, 2004

Text:  Non-rational glyphs

Format: 224 characters, 8 characters per line, 14 lines per column, 2 columns.
              224 Zeichen,
8 Zeichen pro Linie, 14 Linien pro Kolonne, 2 Kolonnen.

 

Pearl Park Scripture - J, 2004

Text:  Non-rational glyphs
Format:
224 characters, 8 characters per line, 14 lines per column, 2 columns.
              224 Zeichen,
8 Zeichen pro Linie, 14 Linien pro Kolonne, 2 Kolonnen.

 

 


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Pearl Park Scripture - M, Boole, 2005

Text: The design of the following treatise is to investigate the fundamental laws of those operations of the mind by which reasoning is performed; to give expression to them in the symboli­cal language of a Calculus, and upon this foundation to establish the science of Logic

Format: 224 characters, 8 characters per line, 14 lines per column, 2 columns.
              224 Zeichen,
8 Zeichen pro Linie, 14 Linien pro Kolonne, 2 Kolonnen.


Source / Quelle:
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought. . ., George Boole, I,1, Macmillan London , 1854.
 


 

Pearl Park Scripture - B, 2004  with gold leaf enhancement.

Text:  Non-rational glyphs

Format:
224 characters, 8 characters per line, 14 lines per column, 2 columns.
              224 Zeichen,
8 Zeichen pro Linie, 14 Linien pro Kolonne, 2 Kolonnen.

Click here for text arrangement
 

Pearl Park Scripture - DD, Confucius, 2005
Text:
1. The Master said, 'Is it not pleasant to learn with a constant perseverance and application? 2. 'Is it not delightful to have friends coming from distant quarters?' 
3. 'Is he not a man of complete virtue, who feels no
discomposure though men may take no note of him?'

Format: 224 characters, 8 characters per line, 14 lines per column, 2 columns.
              224 Zeichen,
8 Zeichen pro Linie, 14 Linien pro Kolonne, 2 Kolonnen.

Source / Quelle: Confucian Analects 1,1. Translation James Legge

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Pearl Park Scripture - N, Darwin, 2005
Text:
It is interesting to contemplate a tangled bank, clothed with many plants of many kinds, with birds singing on the bushes, with various insects flitting about, and with worms crawling through the damp earth, and to reflect that these elaborately constructed forms, so different from each other, and dependent upon each other in so complex a manner, have all been produced by laws acting around us. C Darwin 

Format: 340 characters: 10 characters per line, 17 lines per column, 2 columns.
              340 Zeichen,
10 Zeichen pro Linie, 17 Linien pro Kolonne, 2 Kolonnen.

Source / Quelle: Origin of Species, Chapter 15, Recapitulation & Conclusion

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