SAVING TOM FRIEDMAN (eng.)

O knjizi SAVING TOM FRIEDMAN (eng.)

SAVING TOM FRIEDMAN

book by Stefan Haus.

This is a philosophical exploration of works made by an American artist Tom Friedman, done by a Croatian writer Stefan Haus. Tom Friedman has designed and produced the book. It's a limited edition, 500 copies, each is signed and numbered by Tom Friedman, and each book includes an original hand-drawn 'doodle' drawing by Tom Friedman.

Excerpt from the book:

"Cube, therefore, as a geometrical body, or a solid figure, is a moment in the genesis of everything. From the monad and the dyad arise the numbers, then points, then lines, then geometrical figures, then geometrical bodies, then everything we can see, touch and feel. This means that without the cube, there’s no cosmos. This means that the cube, alongside other geometrical bodies, stands as the metaphysical foundation of everything corporeal that we are, have and do. And now the question is: what does the Friedman cube tell us about our cosmos? That it is mangled? That’s too easy to say. It actually says that, if one of the foundation points of our universe is mangled, the entire universe is not only built on shaky foundation, but that its own built, and the built of all of its beings, is on the edge of non-Being, that it is sick to death, if we could say that. And what about the rust, what does that tell us? As rust is something that occurs when iron is exposed to oxygen and moisture for a long period of time, this cube informs us that everything that is built on it, suffers from exposure to a long period of time, which means to the realm of generation and decay, coming and going, to the realm of change, flow and flux. This naturally means that nothing in our universe is stable, firm and secure in its Being, its essence and its existence."

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"Hello, I must be going
I cannot stay
I came to say
I must be going
I'm glad I came
But just the same
I must be going, la-la!"
 

Groucho Marx