2024

Tussilago

music box on punch cards, photo paper,
10х20х20 sm

The space of rational numbers is incomplete. The rational can be fully described. The irrational cannot be fully described.

Thus, no matter how close reason approaches the boundary between the rational and the irrational, the irrational will always remain out of reach.

3,1415926535 8979323846 2643383279
5028841971 6939937510 5820974944
5923078164 0628620899 8628034825
3421170679 8214808651 3282306647
0938446095 5058223172 53594081…

The number PI is encoded on the punch card in the key of D minor.
The punch card is twisted into a Möbius strip. Because of this, the melody becomes twice as long. The first half sounds in familiar harmony.
But in the second half, harmony is replaced by disharmony, indicating the inevitability of the unknown and the irrational.
No matter how long the harmonious melody is, there is at least as much disharmony.

Turn the knob gently.
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Tilda