Movement begins everything. Place a pencil at a point and move it to form a line. From a seed a stem, from a stem a leaf. Multiple lines, multiple points, irregular, straight, curved, connected, and disconnected create distance, velocity, harmony, and disjunction.
Movement is formally expressed in contrasts, inside and outside, dark and light, straight and curved, connected and disconnected, simple and detailed, blue and orange. The result is energy.
Plants grow from the center outward; they grow outward longitudinally and horizontally in layers. Boundaries between layers and contrasts show their forms.
The mind’s eye never abandons all dimensions including time. If you stare at a gray field it begins to dance.
Parallel lines of changing thickness show depth and density. Agitrons, blurgits, and indotherms show heat and motion.
Lines increasing in thickness, decreasing in separation, have spacial effects. Progression, tension, radiation, rotation, variation, stratification. The eye traces paths that pull inward and push outward.
One is the circle, encompassing. Two is the square, horizontal and vertical. Three is the triangle, a trinity. Each form has its tension and its resolution— seed, stem, leaf.
Streams of water in a river. Strands of grass, stands of willow. Tail feathers of wading birds. Progressive deposits on the banks. Rock strata over millions of years.
The outer has a relation to the inner. Rays that begin at the center may be blunted. An essential movement can be cloaked by materials and reactions with the environment. Therefore, we compromise and develop hybrid forms. We should see the essence in the appearance.
Space has no boundary and no form. Consider boundaries. Boundaries resist movement and deflect it. Boundaries separate inner from outer, and inner from innermost. However tenuous, contrasting substances create a boundary.
Thoughts of Klee