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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:14pt'>I have found this thread lovely, interesting and thought provoking.<BR>
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Nothing fancy or high-tech? — the pictures you sent showed an enormous amount of technology, as well as artistry and basic patterns elaborated. I remember once when my son wanted to go back to live in the town of his father and farm the steep terraced slopes of the Andes. One of his many aunts took him aside and explained that he could have others farm his land and give him some of the product, he could be school teacher, but that he did not have the knowledge necessary to farm, to handle the animals, he did not know the technological knowledge. And it is technology. If engineers had laid the pipes to bring the water from high up and allow it to come down the mountain in a controlled fashion to water all the terraces that cove two sides of the mountain over miles and thousand of feet of altitude we would call it ‘high-tech’; that it be in ditches does not make it less so. And to know this system well enough to use it, to maintain it, to create festivals around it, to compose music for it, well., not high-tech?<BR>
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And simple? Buttons (as in remotes) are simple. For the user. Think of the difference of technological knowledge on the individual basis.<BR>
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The spirals are so beautiful. And so complex/simple and can be done in so many ways. And they work in stone, in wood, in anything of fabric or thread, in the wind. And the look is, indeed, profoundly ‘fancy’ even if I also agree that it is a ‘basic’ pattern.<BR>
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Recognition of repetition in patterned complex ways is also language, basic to humanity.<BR>
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Thanks for all your insights. MJ<BR>
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On 7/5/10 11:30 PM, "Richard Zane Smith" <<a href="rzs@WILDBLUE.NET">rzs@WILDBLUE.NET</a>> wrote:<BR>
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I like to see simple basic patterns in things.... nothing fancy or high-tech...<BR>
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ske:noh<BR>
Richard<BR>
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