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85 x 60 cm glass pane, silkscreened black

line drawings taken from Nanex, Crop Circle of the Day (suspicious behavior (aka algorithmic trading) on the financial markets on the millisecond level): www.nanex.net/FlashCrash/CCircleDay.html

A Poem in Naskh (Arabic) Calligraphy from the face plate of a 13th Century Geomantic device.

www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_object...

The poem, i.e. device speaks to the user in the "I" form, as if the machine speaks... :

I am the possessor of eloquence and the silent speaker and through my speech [arise] desires and fears.
The judicious one hides his secret thoughts, but I disclose them, just as if hearts were created as my parts.*

I am the revealer of secrets; in me are marvels of wisdom and strange and hidden things.
But I have spread out the surface of my face out of humility, and have prepared it as a substitute for earth.

* The idea apparently being, just as if the device's internal parts were hearts – i.e., as if the tablet were a living and hence perceptive being.

Maps of the eye staring at nothing. Drawn with reflecting a light-beam from the eye onto a photo-sensitive paper

From: Alfred L. Yarbus, Eye Movements and Vision, trans. Basil Haigh (New York: Plenum Press, 1967).

howardroark.nl/post/14451963154/maps-of-the-eye-staring-a...