Architecture II
An entrance is symmetrical, right and left, down an avenue, diamonds and trees – symmetry. What is the beam? What is the lintel? What is the corbelled roof? What is the dome? And what about hair? Some days she can have a good hair day left and a bad hair day right. Some days she has a good hair day right and a bad hair day left. Some days the right side of her hair is medium bad and the left side of her hair is medium good. Other days the right side of her hair is medium good and the left side of her hair is medium bad. She has only one crown, if she had a double crown that would be symmetry. But her single pinwheel of hair organization seems to have a follicle embedded independent entity life of its own that plots against symmetry. Does she ever find herself in a symmetrical - bilaterally symmetrical good hair day? No she does not. Does She ever find herself in a bilaterally symmetrical bad hair day? In the few hours of morning before she conquers the nodal mischief maker in her crown. Architecture strives to regain world symmetry with angles and curves, placing hidden sources of light, behind boxes or open in hanging luminescence pointing to that single destructive surface.
posted by vjane at 6:51 PM
3 Comments:
this is hilarious. i can so identify with her. this was my life growing up with uncomfortable hair. still is really.
I am starting to see that everything does have it's other side, it's evil twin or it's positive charge, that bilateral symmetry is also another way of seeing the good in everything, even a bad hair day. You are messing with my black and white method of parsing the world. Thanks.
I've had bilaterally bad hair days, but not symetrically - bad each side in its own way.
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