The Hinges of Reality

Here's where Hinges of Reality began:

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(lichen on a Boothbay gravestone)

...but what inspired me to rotate the image 90 degrees? and then to mirror it? and then to do a vertical mirror?

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But now it's clear that two monks are bowing to one another,
that there's some other super-natural Being (perhaps Kuan Yin) behind each of them,
and that they are meeting at the edge of a pond, in which their images are reflected.

and here's the next step in evolution of the image:

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'Fearful Symmetries' collects most of my work with mirroring and tessellations.