{"id":3136,"date":"2013-09-15T14:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T22:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2025-10-10T14:18:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T22:18:54","slug":"metaphysical-art-explained-squiggles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=3136","title":{"rendered":"Metaphysical Art Explained: Squiggles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Order and disorder are distributed in varying ways\u2014sometimes it seems as if it&#8217;s in layers. That is to say, there may be patterns of seeming regularity, approximately, within which are patterns of rough-regularity, a little different, but roughly the same. That represents us in a seemingly regular world, yet one in which it seems chance abounds. Around and through are squiggles of spontaneity, which express not only our individuality, but also a quality of continual entrance into seemingly ordered reality of forces that tend to seem out of place, forces that force a change, an adjustment. Thus does the Divine play gently\u2014oh, so gently\u2014shake things up. (Sure, sometimes it shakes things up not so gently\u2014but that&#8217;s another mandala.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/cartoons\/mandalas\/explanations\/squiggles1.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking of another mandala, these are infinite in number, as is the Divine Flow, which relishes, luxuriates, enjoys the play of possibilities. It&#8217;s not as if there is a single, all-purpose Truth, then, although there are many relatively more and less true whatevers depending on the criteria involved. For example, the aforementioned mandala might be &#8220;danced&#8221; (well, what word would you use?) in the following way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/cartoons\/mandalas\/explanations\/squiggles2.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The caption to these again draws on a calligraphic squiggle that I can&#8217;t make out, but it&#8217;s the intersection between the fine penmanship of an expert and the innocent wonder of the child who hasn&#8217;t learned that letter-making needs to follow certain limitations if it is to be understandable within the limits of any particular language. It&#8217;s just so, flowy-jerky with flourishes and both controlled and free. Calligraphers spend decades trying to recapture those qualities and also work within the limitations of their own writing system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/cartoons\/mandalas\/explanations\/squiggles3.JPG\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Order and disorder are distributed in varying ways\u2014sometimes it seems as if it&#8217;s in layers. That is to say, there may be patterns of seeming regularity, approximately, within which are patterns of rough-regularity, a little different, but roughly the same. That represents us in a seemingly regular world, yet one in which it seems chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-mandalas-doodles-scripts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3137,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions\/3137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}