Norman's Scale Question

[abknight@zzzzzz]

Norman!

This e-mail drives me crazy!  I wrote a lively, witty, if I may say,
response and lost it to the ethernet because I got disconnected, tried to
reconnect without copying and the hand of god came down and claimed my e-
mail.  When I compose offline, I love the converstional bounce, get
reflective and choose not to send!

I'll try a little again.

Scale is grand.  It is intoxicating, and it is mighty.

A clear elegent idea needs no scale.  Archimedes and his equation of
displacement and volume needs no scale. Relational equations have no scale.
They are relational. They apply at all scales.   A grandiose and monumental
intention is gradiose and monumental even when miniature. An intimate and
embracing form is intimate and embracing even at 70 feet height.  Maybe a
little intimidating, but the most of the content is the same.   Maybe its
like a wavelenth.  Content is frequency, scale is wave height, or volume.

Volume, a good word when talking about sculpture,  is very important.  If it
is too low or small it cannot be percieved.  If it is high or great enough
it can shake down mountains, or certainly get our attention.   Size matters.
Saddam didn't put miniature figurines of himself in the town square, but his
content would have got across had he made every Iraqi have a Saddam figurine
in their homes, which maybe he more or less did.  I quess small can be
intimidating too.

I think I'm hopelessly lost!  Maybe size doesn't matter. Birmingham Alabama
has just put up a collosal statue of Vulcan in the midst of their city.
What do people care about?  The naked butt.

Bill