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Verbogeometry

A God Path

2000
Digital image
A God Path, 2000 — a red and green field carrying the seven-dimensional distance formula, 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 = 1
A God Path, 2000 — digital image
The poem 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1  =  1

A path from confusion to the point where seven deities meet.

What the equation is doing

This is a verbogeometry piece. It runs the analytic geometry distance formula through seven dimensions — one for each deity — and every one of those dimensions is a gradation running out of confusion toward the point where a deity exists.

The seven are named on the piece: Allah, Buddha, Jesus, Spider Woman, Vishnu, Yahweh, Zeus. Each term is a difference — confusion minus a deity — squared; the seven are summed and the root taken. That is the distance formula doing exactly what it does on a flat page, only seven times over.

The path it measures is therefore a path from confusion to the place where the seven meet. Seven ones, added, come to one.

The detail

The equation runs as a long band across the piece. Here it is at full length.

The seven-term distance formula from A God Path, set out as a long horizontal band
The seven-term distance formula, full width.
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