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  • in reply to: Debt Rattle April 7 2021 #72616
    Tomas
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    On Happiness

    “We say, to shine one corner of the world–that is enough. Not the whole world. Just make it clear where you are.”

    Shunryu Suzuki

    in reply to: Debt Rattle July 3 2020 #60772
    Tomas
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    Great photo, too bad it is not still like that as they have dropped the WWII monument in between the Washington monument and placed it right at the edge of the reflecting pool of the Lincoln Memorial. Replacing any grand effect with a Disney land park like confusion of hyper activity with the proverbial splashing fountain in the middle of a concrete pavilion with no protection from the sun.

    The WWII monument is divided at it’s center by the east west axis of the mall with a Atlantic section representing the European theater in the north and a Pacific section representing the Pacific theater in the south at odds with the major east west axis of the mall. If you are standing on the major axis you would be looking either directly to the east and the Atlantic or to the west and the Pacific. I know there was the North Atlantic and The South Pacific theaters in the war but it sure seems out of wack with the already established movement of the major axis, where one feels there is a great, movement toward the vast openness of the west, the rest of the country and the setting sun behind the Pacific Ocean.

    The already existing monuments on the axis the Capital, the Washington monument and the Lincoln memorial are all balanced like the human face by symmetry, with one half of the building in the south and one half in the north, that is crossing the central axis, uniting the four quadrants of east and west, north and south. The WWII monument on the other hand is split by the east west axis like a broken plate creating a feeling of division and boredom, instead of unity and strength. Revealing the center or the dominant axis is a major aesthetic flaw, the center is implied and felt but not seen, it is the underlying geometry that does the yeoman’s work of organizing and making space intelligible to the human mind.

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