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taking one complete lunar cycle for each vial to descend from the canopy to the base of the palm house. During this 27kday descent of each glass vial, purified water from the main reservoir is pumped by a gravitationally forced peristaltic pump mounted in the top of each vial. This water passes through two sheets of mylar film and eventually concentrates in the base of the vial. The mylar film has previously been silkscreened with a phosphorescent ink that appears invisible when dry. As the purified water passes over the surface of this film, it partially washes off the phosphorescent medium and transforms the purified water ethereally, charging it with the musical scores of one of the three arias sung by Rosa. At dusk on a full moon, Rosa plays one of her Lucite discs, and the volume transmitted from the mica resonator is allowed free passage out through the amplifying horn. On the nights leading up to the full moon, this passage is partially obscured by a latex membrane that imitates the function of the epiglottis . The full strength of her vocal performance triggers a sensor, allowing Rosa’s breasts to release carbon dioxide. This gas is piped to the glass vial that has most recently made its 27%-daydescent. The gas shoots into the vial, dispersing the ethereally charged water out of the vial and into the glass gland, where it is transported around one of three capillary channels. As the water first enters the glass gland, a sensor electrifies the rarefied air in its spherical base, causing it to glow. This violet glow makes the ethereally charged water fluoresce as it makes itsjourney through the capillaries , picking up on its way additional phosphorescent medium concealed within the inner structure. The water passes out of the gland and into the first bell jar containing the heart. As the water enters the organ, a sensor electrifies the glass coil in the base of the bell jar, bathing the arterial cast in a magnificent violet haze-in effect, bringing the organ to bloom. (The lungs and the brain are activated in a similar way on successive lunar cycles.) It is this blooming process of the organs , directly attributed to the vocal frequency of Rosa’s sublime voice, that is the climactic byproduct of this 27%-day cycle. As the next day starts, the polyester arterial casts resume their normal, almost invisible stance, and Rosa’svoice reverts to a whisper as the second glass vial begins its slow 27!4-day descent, meticulously transforming purified water into ethereally charged nectar for Rosa to decant on the forthcoming full moon. MORPHOLOGICAL ONTOLOGY: TOWARD A WIDER MINIMALISM Jonathan Willard, 630 Shore Road, #601, Long Beach, NY 11561, U.S.A. Received 6February 1997. Acceptedfor publication by Rogerl? Malina. An artwork can be relevant, in all its contingency and eventfulness, to philosophy and science alike because it is a chiasmically dense particular whose constant emergence or radiance can bend our thinking about the world in ever deeper and more expansive ways [13. My starting point of morphological understanding was conceived of as the science and study of form-from visual, spatial and structural standpoints. This work has made me increasingly mindful of the role that perception plays in the experience of form. As a result, I now believe that a truer definition of morphology will ultimately evolve beyond the realms of art, design and architecture and will arrive at a more epistemological usage, for every idea has shape and isform. The inherent deconstruction in abstract art draws upon a fabric of brute meaning. It therefore provides an excellent vehicle for the revivification of Fig. 2. Jonathan Willard, Lovers, oil on canvas, 50 x 62 in, 1995. (Collection of Reina and ChrisKomisarjevsky)The modulatinglines define the field between abstraction and signification . The movement was inspired by oscillographic traces showing the fundamentalfrequency recorded by the oscillograph device when words of love and affection are spoken. 234 Artists’ Skucinetits both visual experience and the pictorial imagination. My interest in the genre of creative expression called minimalism stems from a perspective that is decidedlyAsian . Minimalism in the Western sense, connoting a focus on form (from the Latin minimus...

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