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The exhibition’s title is a translation into Esperanto of ‘the empty room is beautiful’. This phrase is itself a reordering of a phrase within a letter that the writer Franz Kafka sent to Milena Jesenská, in which he wrote, ‘the beautiful room is empty.’ Continue reading Helen Mirra
I’ve been thinking about asterisks lately, both as typographic marks and as actual small stars in the sky (asterisk being the diminutive of aster [star]). As a symbol it is particularly multivalent: it can been used in proofreading to mark repetition, it is sometimes enlisted simply for emphasis, and it can serve as a verb as well as noun. In linguistics it indicates a word that has no historical record of use, and it has many applications in mathematics. Continue reading Helen Mirra
