Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Emerging form...
The Coming of the Universe into Existence: "Before the Big Bang, there was no such thing as matter. From a condition of non-existence in which neither matter, nor energy, nor even time existed-and which can only be described metaphysically-matter, energy, and time were all created in an instant. This fact, only recently discovered by modern physics, was announced to us in the Quran 1,400 years ago"
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
In the garden...
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Magic window...
glowing orbs of plasma spew forth
releasing hordes of neural panic,
spilling colors and exotic shapes.
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Friday, June 26, 2009
Asemic symbolism...
Asemic symbolism has no verbal sense, though it may have a clear contextual sense. Through its design, composition and symbolic content, asemic symbolism may evoke an understanding, meaning or intuition. Through its composition and symbolic content, asemic symbolism may provide an understanding of complex ideas. This form of art depends on the viewers knowledge of philosophy, art history, mathematics, religion, philosophy, physics, sociology, nature and other esoteric subjects for it to make sense, or it can be understood through aesthetic intuition.
Asemic symbolism is truly a product of the Internet. Search engines have made it possible to generate thousands of links for words, and images. It also provides a way to unify esoteric ideas in a spontaneous manner.
The asemic symbolism process has five parts:
1. Creation of a spontaneous drawing (the genesis or nexus of all asemic symbolism; proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint )
2. Manipulation of the drawing through the use of a computer (with image software)
3. Formation of a spontaneous title using Asemic Symbolic Divination a technologically advanced form of scrying.
4. Researching the title on the Internet to provide possible explanations or meanings of the drawing ( link the drawing title to as many sites as possible)
5. Publishing the manipulated drawing, title and links to a web site
The bi-product of this process is an acute awareness that everything in our universe is related. Much like the physics concept of a "theory of everything", asemic symbolism is rooted in the ancient idea of causality. Publishing on the Internet allows the asemic symbolic art work to grow in geometric proportions. Linking is the key to provide a self sustaining life to the art work.
Asemic symbolism is not an art movement. Movements have almost entirely disappeared in contemporary art where individualism and diversity prevail. It is however a creative process that utilizes the manipulation of materials to find or define unity in the known or unknown universe.
Asemic symbolic predation is an organic metaphor that describes an
interaction where a predator design feeds on another design or visual source known as the prey
An example of an asemic symbolic listing on the internet: http://metrogadfly.blogspot.com/
Monday, June 22, 2009
Organisms...
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Monday, June 15, 2009
Rejuvenation...
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running. Bill Watterson
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Monday, June 8, 2009
Serene...
Monday, June 1, 2009
Tranquility...
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Monday, May 25, 2009
Vertical movement...
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Friday, May 22, 2009
Tree of understanding...
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Isom codex
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Symbols from the cosmos...
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Friday, May 8, 2009
Meandering spiral...
Spiral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The spiral plays a certain role in symbolism, and appears in megalithic art, notably in the Newgrange tomb or in many Galician petroglyphs such as the one in Mogor. See also triple spiral.
While scholars are still debating the subject, there is a growing acceptance that the simple spiral, when found in Chinese art, is an early symbol for the sun. Roof tiles dating back to the Tang Dynasty with this symbol have been found west of the ancient city of Chang'an (modern-day Xian).
The spiral is the most ancient symbol found on every civilized continent. Due to its appearance at burial sites across the globe, the spiral most likely represented the 'life-death-rebirth' cycle. Similarly, the spiral symbolized the sun, as ancient people thought the sun was born each morning, died each night, and was reborn the next morning.
Spirals are also a symbol of hypnosis, stemming from the cliché of people and cartoon characters being hypnotized by staring into a spinning spiral (One example being Kaa in Disney's The Jungle Book). They are also used as a symbol of dizziness, where the eyes of a cartoon character, especially in anime and manga, will turn into spirals to show they are dizzy or dazed. The spiral is also a prominent symbol in the anime Gurren Lagann, where it symbolizes the double helix structure of DNA, representing biological evolution, and the spiral structure of a galaxy, representing universal evolution."
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Saturday, May 2, 2009
Sacred Insects
Typical flies (blow-flies and flesh-flies) attracted to carrion and meat; similar flies must have
been very familiar to the ancient egyptians, much as they are commonly seen today around
the food waste and household refuse of most human settlements .
Although the precise symbolism of early fly amulets remains obscure, their significance during the later New Kingdom period (1550-1069 BC) is better documented. At this time the military decoration known as the 'order of the golden fly' (or 'fly of valour') was introduced and awarded for bravery in battle. The fly was perhaps used in this way because of it's apparent qualities of persistence in the face of opposition. One of the best known examples is a gold chain with three pendants in the form of 'flies of valour' from the tomb of Queen Ahhotep I (c.1550 BC) and now in the Egyptian Museum Cairo.
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
Jungle...
Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future. Albert Camus
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
Drawing in tongues...
Drawing in tongues is the drawing of fluent language-like syllables, often as part of metaphysical experience. Some consider these symbols to be meaningless, others consider them to be a personal language.
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Saturday, April 25, 2009
Symbol of our time...
CBC News: Analysis & Viewpoint: Richard Handler:
From Moses to AIDS, disease as symbol
Aug. 21, 2006
"Throughout history, disease has been a symbol of its time. Historians know this well. One of the leading popular books of late is called Rats, Lice and History. As Massey lecturer Ronald Wright noted in 2004, it wasn't the Spanish that conquered the New World, it was illness.
Disease as a symbol has an ancient pedigree. In the book of Exodus, Moses threatens the Egyptian pharaoh with 10 plagues. Eventually the pharaoh relents and allows the Jews to leave after the last of the plagues claims the first-born of every Egyptian family..."
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Symbolic refuse...
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Monday, April 20, 2009
Land of the lost...
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Sunday, April 19, 2009
The search for answers...
I have spent most of my life searching for answers regarding how to be a good and meaningful son, sibling, father, husband, father, teacher and artist These questions have monopolized my thinking for many years. Searching for that perfect solution to the complicated vagaries of life constitutes a philosophical question about the purpose and importance of human existence. The concept can be expressed through a variety of related questions, such as Why are we here?, What's life all about? and What is the meaning of it all? It has been the subject of much philosophical, scientific, and theological, speculation throughout history and there have been a large number of answers from many different cultural and ideological backgrounds. Albert Camus observed, we humans are creatures who spend our lives trying to convince ourselves that our existence is not absurd. The meaning of life is deeply mixed with the philosophical, scientific and religious conceptions of existence, consciousness, and happiness, and touches on many issues, such as symbolic meaning which has been very important to my art work and writing.
To some, it may appear that I am flaying about in the “wind of society” obsessed with “meaningless windmills” and leading a crisis filled life. I may never find definitive answers to my questions, but the search has been exciting and challenging. Each day is filled with reading, blogging, web surfing, drawing, marvelous grandchildren, supportive family members, gracious former students and a vibrant wife full of life.
Copyright 2009 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.
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Friday, April 17, 2009
Configuring the past...
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Thursday, April 16, 2009
Boat in time...
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. William Shakespeare
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Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Organic calculator,,,
A person who operates a organic machine or otherwise makes calculations about the nature of the universe.
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Secret code of life or drivel...
What is the secret code?
I sometimes wonder if my spontaneous drawings and writings are a secret code of life from deep inside a troubled and curious mind - maybe it is nothing more than drivel, devoid of meaning and purpose. Ronald D. Isom Sr.
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Story threads...
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Monday, April 13, 2009
Vigilance...
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Sunday, April 12, 2009
Symbol...
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Praising the earth...
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Friday, April 10, 2009
Organic soup...
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Thursday, April 9, 2009
No space to waste...
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“Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain,For strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain.America, America, man sheds his waste on thee,And hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea.” George Carlin quotes (American stand-up Comedian, Actor and Author. b.1937 d. 2008)
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Wednesday, April 8, 2009
Night sky...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009
Garden of delights...
A garden is a complex of aesthetic and plastic intentions; and the plant is, to a landscape artist, not only a plant - rare, unusual, ordinary or doomed to disappearance - but it is also a color, a shape, a volume or an arabesque in itself. Roberto Burle Marx
A Biography of Roberto Burle Marx:
Born - Died : 1909 - 1994 Brazilian landscape architect, garden designer and painter. Roberto Burle Marx's work is interesting for its high quality, for its exemplary use of the Abstract Style and for its use of native Brazilian plants. Marx was the child of Brazilian mother (Burle) and a German-Jewish father (Marx). His mother was interested in gardening and his father in design. Roberto Burle Marx went to study painting in Berlin at the age of 19. His studies continued in Rio de Janiro, at the School of Fine Arts. Roberto Burle Marx was fortunate to work with the architect Lucio Costa. His garden designs were like abstract paintings, some curvilinear and some rectilinear, using native Brazilian plants to create blocks of colour. A surprising feature of his curvilinear designs was his relative insensitivity to the curves of underlying topography. Roberto Burle Marx's best work was on flat surfaces, including roof gardens and the 5 km promenade at Copacabana beach.
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Monday, April 6, 2009
Fermentation...
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Sunday, April 5, 2009
Cosmic story...
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Saturday, April 4, 2009
Businessmen...
Checks and balances Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances. Steve Allen
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Friday, April 3, 2009
Asemic poem 230...
Asemic symbolism has no verbal sense, though it may have a clear contextual sense. Through its design, composition and symbolic content, asemic symbolism may evoke an understanding, meaning or intuition. Through its composition and symbolic content, asemic symbolism may provide an understanding of complex ideas. This form of art depends on the viewers knowledge of philosophy, art history, mathematics, religion, philosophy, physics, sociology, nature and other esoteric subjects for it to make sense, or it can be understood through aesthetic intuition.
Asemic symbolism is truly a product of the Internet. Search engines have made it possible to generate thousands of links for words, and images. It also provides a way to unify esoteric ideas in a spontaneous manner.
The asemic symbolism process has five parts:
1. Creation of a spontaneous drawing (the genesis or nexus of all asemic symbolism; proceeding from natural feeling or native tendency without external constraint )
2. Manipulation of the drawing through the use of a computer (with image software)
3. Formation of a spontaneous title using Asemic Symbolic Divination a technologically advanced form of scrying.
4. Researching the title on the Internet to provide possible explanations or meanings of the drawing ( link the drawing title to as many sites as possible)
5. Publishing the manipulated drawing, title and links to a web site
The bi-product of this process is an acute awareness that everything in our universe is related. Much like the physics concept of a "theory of everything", asemic symbolism is rooted in the ancient idea of causality. Publishing on the Internet allows the asemic symbolic art work to grow in geometric proportions. Linking is the key to provide a self sustaining life to the art work.
Asemic symbolism is not an art movement. Movements have almost entirely disappeared in contemporary art where individualism and diversity prevail. It is however a creative process that utilizes the manipulation of materials to find or define unity in the known or unknown universe.
Asemic symbolic predation is an organic metaphor that describes an
interaction where a predator design feeds on another design or visual source known as the prey
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Visual language...
A systematic means of communicating ideas or feelings by the use of conventionalized signs, or marks which may have understood meanings.
"Art is and I am."
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Wednesday, April 1, 2009
Garden of delights...

Forces and processes that produce and control all the phenomena of the material world
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Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Life without art...
The world is full of puzzling art and many artists appear to be either mentally ill or ego maniacal sociopaths obsessed with personal aggrandizement. Some seem to be confused and perplexed by a world they do not embrace. They clutter their homes and public spaces with scribbles and scrawls that have no apparent purpose or social value. They fill useless sketchbooks with gibberish and childish nonsense. They use public funds to express aberrant ideas and unintelligible drivel. This unholy lot of miscreants pollute the masses with foolish ideas and perverted logic. They dress funny and some have esoteric lifestyles that influence the youth of the world. They constantly search for answers to questions that have no answers. Their bizarre behavior makes them difficult friends and determined enemies. However, without them life would be a monochromatic two dimensional world.
Copyright 2009 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece. Vladimir Nabokov
Monday, March 30, 2009
Word formation...
The act of giving form or shape to words; a forming; a shaping.
"Art is and I am."
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Facebook overload...
Jean-Paul Bunny Lecture Series No. 6:
Facebook get out of my face
Since I retired, I have often think about my former students. What are they doing? What is their occupation? Was I a good or bad influence? Over the years, a few students from each class would seek me out and tell me about their lives. Many students just seemed to disappear and became faint memories.
About a month ago a friend suggested that I join Facebook. He was very excited about the networking possibilities and the rekindling of old friendships and memories. I joined and spent each day building my "page" and adding friends. I got warm messages and felt I was part of new found community. As the days passed I linked and posted in a frenzy. I became obsessed with cramming a thirty-five year teaching career into the bowels of the Facebook world. I posted "clever" replies and received "clever" replies. The little notes reminded me of the personal give and take of the classroom.The number of friends increased! The posting escalated! I had entered a world filled with people pumping out how they felt, what they were doing.
Soon, I noticed a pattern. A few individuals dominated the posting. Their lives were filled with humor, friends, parties, cocktail hours, vacations, successful business adventures, wealth, and good deeds. Their lives were vibrant and exciting! I was posting mundane things like pictures of my cat, my art work and grandchildren. The pages were full of surveys or test to determine what color or painting you were. The IQ test was particularly annoying. You were prodded into taking the test because some in the group are smarter than you . The "pithy" comments and answers became irritating. My meaningless joke about George Clooney caused someone to ask " If I was for real". When I replied in a direct way concerning the nature of reality, I was told to "relax". I did not realize that someone who makes a living acting like some one else is a "sacred cow" Needless to say the individuals involved found this little philosophic discussion trivial. That is the problem with Facebook and similar social networking sites they all trivialize intellectual discourse.
I plan to slowly extract myself from FB and return to my boring life. I hope all my old friends and new found friends will keep in touch with personal emails, some snail mail or best of all a personal visit.
P.S. You can always find me here - engaged in intellectual discourse.
Copyright 2009 © Ronald D. Isom, Sr.
Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.
Vladimir Nabokov
Verdant reply...
Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the call of nature.
"Art is and I am."
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Friday, March 27, 2009
Symbolic stew..
"Art is and I am."
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Thursday, March 26, 2009
Sun evolution...
"A cloud of gas and dust begins to contract under the force of gravity. In regions of star birth, we find gaseous nebulae and molecular clouds. These sites of pre-birth are dark patches called globules.
The protosun collapsed. As it did, its temperature rose to about 150,000 degrees and the sun appeared very red. Its radius was about 50 present solar radii.
When the central temperature reaches 10 million degrees, nuclear burning of hydrogen into helium commences.
The star settles into a stable existence on the Main Sequence, generating energy via hydrogen burning. This is the longest single stage in the evolutionary history of a star, typically lasting 90% of its lifetime. Thermonuclear fusion within the Sun is a stable process, controlled by its internal structure."
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Structure...
"Art is and I am."
poststructuralism: "The variety of postmodernism defined by its reaction against structuralism in France, and associated with writers such as Derrida, Foucault, and Kristeva. Whilst deriving from Saussure the view that words mean what they do through their relations with each other rather than through their relationship to an extra-linguistic reality, post-structuralism adds an interest in their origins in relationships of power, or in the unconscious. However, it does not share the structuralist view that the unconscious, or the forms of society, will themselves obey structural laws, waiting to be discovered. Rather, it echoes Nietzsche's hostility to the reduction of human phenomena to lawlike generalizations, associating such views with the philosophical underpinnings of determinist systems such as Marxism, and instead celebrating the formless, or the subjective and spontaneous. Leaning heavily on the psychoanalytic dissolution of the self, it provides one manifestation of the sceptical stance of postmodernism, in particular by refusing any concepts of objectivity, reality, and truth."
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Prediction...
"Art is and I am."
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Monday, March 23, 2009
Phalanges...
Phalanx: Anatomically, any one of the bones in the fingers or toes. (Plural: phalanges.) There are 3 phalanges (the proximal, middle, and distal phalanx) in most of the fingers and toes. However, the thumb and large toe have only two phalanges that accounts for their being shorter.
A "phalanx" in ancient Greece was a military formation composed of heavily armed troops in close deep ranks. The soldiers stood shoulder to shoulder, several rows deep, often with their shields joined. A phalanx was a formidable group that was difficult to penetrate.
The bones in the fingers and toes were first called "phalanges" by the Greek philosopher-scientist Aristotle (384-322 BC) because they are arranged in ranks suggesting the military formation.
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
Pattern modulation...
"Art is and I am."
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
Asemic discussion...

A new word is like a fresh seed sown on the ground of the discussion. Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Earth song...
No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music. Billie Holiday
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
Mind in sync...
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people” Eleanor Roosevelt
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Ground cover...
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