Warren Lee Cohen

Fellow bread enthusiast, oven builder and sculptor Kiko Denzer sent me the following thoughts on art.

“Art is engagement. My intuitive sense of the word was greatly strengthened when I found that the word “art” shares a common root with all these:
Harmony, Arm, Articulate, Article, Arithmetic (the art of counting)
Reason, Ratio, Rational, Ratify
Order, Ordain, Coordinate
Reading, Rite, Ritual, Kindred, Hatred!
How can we know harmony (much less reason, order, ritual, kindred) if we only work with one or two of our many innate faculties and senses?”

A sense for the artistic, for the beautiful and an ability to enter fully into an artistic process lie at the core of our ability to connect with the creative principles of nature. Art is a gateway to the creative spirit that lives within and builds us all.

While investigating the connections between projective geometry and Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, I came upon this beautiful diagram that shows an infinite network of interconnected dodecahedrons (12 pentagons). If we can imagine that space is in fact structured, then what might that structure look like? Apparently there are many interesting solutions. This diagram is far more regular (Euclidean) than any proposed by Einstein which would be warped by the matter that created them. Matter creates the structure of space and the structure of space only exists in its interrelationship with matter.