Martin Rees. (When words don't fail).For several years, I have been reading semi-popular books of cosmology. Most recently, I have been rereading Martin Rees's Just Six Numbers, as I have trouble trying to comprehend the scales and magnitudes cosmology deals with, its vastness yet its measurable exactness. Escapist reading? As an artist I have attempted to somehow get into the mix of things, to effect a kind of reportage. It is of huge consolation to read and to conceive of Verb 1. conceive of - form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case; "Can you conceive of him as the president?" envisage, ideate, imagine the incommensurable in·com·men·su·ra·ble adj. 1. a. Impossible to measure or compare. b. Lacking a common quality on which to make a comparison. 2. Mathematics a. abstraction and indifference of cosmic time to human affairs. Leon Golub, an artist based in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of , was the subject of a traveling survey exhibition spanning fifty years of his work that was on view at the Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn Museum of Art, museum in the borough of Brooklyn, N.Y. Its predecessors were the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library (1823), the Brooklyn Institute (1843), and the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (1890). this summer. |
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