John said: The catalyst was successfully concluding a mural in the children's section of the Grass Valley Library as part of a community college class. Discussion about the next project ensued, which would be the upstairs big people's section of the library and it popped into my head that some attention ought to be paid to the guy the library was named after, who I didn't know anything about - one Josiah Royce.
dmb says: It looks like you already know more about Royce than I do, but "the desire to see things whole" is quite common. And if you can image how to design a mural that depicts an "interpretation of existence that affirms the fundamental intelligibility, meaningfulness, and goodness of human life and gives guidance for our moral striving" then you are a full-blown genius. But I have an idea for you that might work. Carl Jung, the analytical psychologist, said a few things about an already existing symbol of wholeness and unity called a quaternity. He found different versions of it in all kinds of places. Neoplatonism, the occult, religion, alchemy. It's a kind of mandala, I guess. They can be as simple as a circle divided in four by crossing lines or they can be quite elaborate. It's basically a picture of symmetry, balance, unity of opposites - so they're not too bad to look at. Maybe you can try to check out some images on the web and see if any of them look like Royce's desire to you. Just a thought. _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail® goes with you. http://windowslive.com/Tutorial/Hotmail/Mobile?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_HM_Tutorial_Mobile1_052009 Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
