A good lesson learnt from Bifidus and the Crimson Giant

[cheryl penn]

Bifidus wrote and asked if I had looked in the envelope?

Confession time! I had not. For some obscure reason I had read into his work that the envelope should remain closed, that there was nothing inside, that symbols had no opening/business being interpreted ("Any symbol caught not being identical to itself is subject to automatic ejection, a $10000 fine and 12 hours community service"). I had read his work a certain way, but his intention was completely different. What a lesson in mis-interpretation! Sorry Bifidus! The envelope revealed a beautiful sheet of images on tracing paper (a references to seeing through?)

Bifidus are these stamps? Photocopies? And then you asked me what I thought. Here I am going to stick my neck out (not always a good idea!) and venture that they are some sort of Mayan/Native American glyphs/pictographs? Or are they Bifidusian Symbology? Coming from an African context I am not at all familiar with them?? EEK - I feel really out there... But thank you for a good lesson learned in my NOT seeing things as they really are and PLEASE enlighten me - as to intention and what you were referencing - the images are beautiful. The "pages" are steeped in "ages".

[cheryl penn]

But it is standing next to a LARGE sign post - see, there are perks everywhere you look!

[Austin Wills James]

Absolutely! I often find myself asking "Where is that large automobile?" when standing in a parking lot, which is kind of funny because it's a VW Beetle.

[Austin Wills James]

I actually made a card inspired by that very film, while I had it running on my computer. It's the one in my slideshow featuring your friendly neighborhood Spider Man.
(And the soundtrack CD hasn't left my car's CD changer for over 8 months now.)
-AWJ-

[cheryl penn]

"Hardly anything makes sense, why should art?" asked Cheryl, sipping assam tea. "Oh, no, let me rephrase that", she added "Sipping tea makes sense".

[cheryl penn]

No, I'm going to have tea with Erni and mull... - tomorrow - oh, oops, its tomorrow already.

[Marie Wintzer]

No progress at all here? :-((

[Bifidus Jones]

Cheryl you had some very good initial questions about the hieroglyphs: how did I get them on the paper? as I said, this is just for fun, no need to spend valuable time on it, but because the crimson giant project is about multi symbols, languages and interpretations across time, culture, and experience, I wanted some part of my section to contain a written language that pays homage to the ancient writing, signs and symbols left behind by our ancestors around the world whose meanings have yet to be revealed.

[cheryl penn]

Not being at all French, what??? The monkeys are for real guys! We have a troop that passes through every 2 days - about 15 of them. Saddest thing this time was that one of the mothers was carrying a dead baby - they carry them around until they literally go frot its too sad to see. We've been experiencing droughts and now torrential downpours so the whole world is topsy turvy. Back to the symbols - no luck?? ERni and Elaine are needed.

[Marie Wintzer]

Je jette l'eponge....

[De Villo Sloan]

I said I'd try - Aztec? Mayan? Olmec? Toltec? Did I at least get the continent right? Bifidus is vast. More disturbing, I was writing emails with Cheryl about this. She said she had been overrun by monkeys and disappeared.