Little pies

At work on Issue  #5, Time. Baking little  π

Shibugami, star maps, continuous improvement

Earlier this year I purchased some shibugami, because it was described as the stencil paper used to make Katazome-shi, the beautiful stencil dyed papers:

http://www.japanesepaperplace.com/images/products/katazomeshi/bigkatazomeshi/124w.jpg

https://www.washiarts.com/katazome-shi/katazome-shi-152-hand-stenciled-japanese-paper

It is a stiff, slightly leathery paper, that the store in Toronto made sure to interleave with protective paper, to guard my other papers. I tucked it away, and just fantasized about the fabulous designs I would one day carve into it.

And then, contemplating the seven gold leaf star maps I needed to make, I remembered it. And putting it together with my Japanese hole punch...

https://www.hollanders.com/index.php/bookbinding-supplies/small-tools/hole-punches/japanese-hole-punch.html

...I realized I could stencil my gold leaf size right onto the metallic blue background! Combining three arduous steps into one easy step! I danced a little jig! I punched the air repeatedly, and did another little jig!

And here is the result:

I will be putting a couple versions into the Earlville Opera House sale in the next week. And, feel free to contact me if you would like to order one. 

Happy Holidays.

everyday i write the book

Really, Elvis Costello writes the book every day.

Every day I waste some time.
Every day I sit in my studio and look out of the window.
Every day I look around the studio and think, I need to get more organized.
Every day I glue some things together.

Today I went to a presentation given by John Freeman.
(Every Thursday I go to the Living Writers series at Colgate University.
I sell books. I listen to the lecture. I sit next to the author and sell more books.)

And, luckiest of all, I get to chat with the authors. They are a lovely bunch.
John Freeman is a poet, critic, and editor of Freeman's, a biannual fiction anthology.
So that was a treat -- to meet someone else who felt strongly enough about something
to publish it, to find the things, some excellent things, and publish them.

He talked about subscriptions. Which he does not take. And I understand why.

But, every week I am reminded that making and sharing are important disciplines.

So thank you, Living Writers.

time it was and what a time it was it was

photograph by Ralph Eugene Meatyard (1925-1972), an optician and photographer, who lived and worked in Northern Kentucky.  He is a hero of mine.

Time has a deadline

October 16, 2017

Issue #5, Time, has a deadline.

The Metamer Quarterly's New Year has begun. Time is the first issue of Year #2, and will ship on Dec 22.

If you would like a copy, please send your check for $95 by October 30th.

For Year Two, if you would like 2 of the 4 issues, the cost is $ 170. For three issues, the cost is $ 255. For all four, it is $ 340. Please do tell me which issues you want!

Please send checks to PO Box 725, Sherburne, NY 13460

Perks are still shipping; I will just keep plugging away until everyone has gotten their items. Thank you again for your patience.

As I did in Year One, I will post images of the process, and of the final issues. I plan to make several extra copies of each issue, and those will be available, first come, first served, after the ship date of each issue.

Year One, The Sea has shipped

The autumn equinox is past, and The Sea is on its way to the last few subscribers. One Year of The Metamer Quarterly is complete.

The Sea includes wool yarn that was handspun and dyed by Cris Amann, a local artist and craftsperson who makes the most amazing things. And yarn. The wool comes from her friend's sheep.

casting a net

the pull of the moon

If you would like to add something to The Sea, it needs to be in multiples of 17, sent to the address below. Meaning, I will add it by literally adding it. 

TMQ
P.O. Box 725
Sherburne NY 13460

if you would like to order The Sea for yourself, please send a check to the same address. ($95) I am making 17; 15 are spoken for so there are two copies still available; first come, first served.

endless summer

Shameless Commerce Division

New Price List

Effective August 31, 2017

As the Quarterly has unfolded, and as my ambitions for it have increased, it has become clear that it requires more time, more materials, and therefore more money to produce. I've realized as well that I cannot re-produce previous issues. I'm sorry about that; it has just not proved workable. This is a work in progress, and I appreciate your patience.

That said, if you have already paid for your issues, they are coming! Once I've gotten through the back-orders, I will no longer be taking orders for back issues.

Here is the latest price list, which I dearly hope is the last change. If you have questions, please write to me at P.O. Box 725, Sherburne, NY 13460. Subscription requests can be sent, with payment, to the same address.

New pricing for individual issues

#1 - Metamerism --  no longer available
#2 - Maps & Diagrams --  no longer available
#3 - The Book of Love --  no longer available

#4 - #8 -- Ninety-five dollars each  ($95).  The subjects are:

#4  The Sea (2 copies still available) 

#5  Time  (subscription payment due by October 22)

#6 <no subject>  (subscription payment due by January 22, 2018)

#7  The Cabin and the Stone House   (subscription payment due by April 22, 2018)

#8  Sound  (subscription payment due by July 22, 2018)

Subscriptions

Issues #1 - #4  --  Year 1 bundle no longer available

Issues #5 - #8 -- Purchase the second 4 issues for three hundred and forty dollars   ($340)

Thank you for your continued support. And yes, I am still looking for contributors and collaborators!

-- Lara Scott

p.s. If you have already paid for your issue, but have not received it yet, (1) yes, yes, it is coming! I am working on them, and hope to have everything shipped by November, if not before, and (2) of course you don't have to pay the higher price! That would be so Shkreli, so not TMQ!

string, shells, ribbon, and rocks

Except for a book that is going abroad, and a book who keeps crossing paths with its recipient, the Book of Love is now in the hands of all subscribers. 

And, for the next issue, if you would like to add something to The Sea, it needs to be in multiples of 15, sent to the address below. Meaning, I will add it by literally adding it. 

TMQ
P.O. Box 725
Sherburne NY 13460

a good word from a plutocrat

a plutocrat on how to be a good citizen

how is this related to The Metamer Quarterly? Loosely, I'll admit. When I chose the topics for the eight planned issues of TMQ -- Metamerism, Maps & Diagrams, The Book of Love, The Sea, Time, <no subject>, The Cabin and the Stone House, and Sound -- I left out some of my usual preoccupations. Not because they don't interest me, but because they interest me in a "boots on the ground" way, not in a more reflective, poetic way.

I regularly get on a soapbox about feminism, race, color, and class. Economic inequality and the infuriating distortion in wages, where some of the most necessary jobs are paid the least, while many of the least important to society's orderly functioning are compensated outrageously, is another common rant of mine.

This essay from Nick Hanauer says it well. And it is pragmatic. Because really, one is only philosophical about poverty when one has plenty. Our problem, nationwide, is not supply. It is distribution and will. We don't lack food, or capacity to provide good education, access to decent healthcare, stable and well-maintained housing. The people in power, including those with the most economic power, do not yet have the will to make changes. Hanauer states the obvious -- to avoid actual war, make the changes that will actually lift all boats.

"Once we’ve dismissed with trickle-down nonsense, the way forward becomes clear. I’ll save a detailed policy agenda for another forum, but there’s no getting around the trillion-dollar elephant in the room: the 5 percent of GDP that used to go to wages but now goes to executive pay and record corporate profits. This isn’t money we’re shipping overseas or feeding to robots or burying in holes. The most obvious way to address our crisis of growing inequality is to reverse the policies that undermined the older, more equitable norms. This means raising the minimum wage and the overtime threshold to their inflation-adjusted peaks, and indexing them to the appropriate economic metric. This means restricting the stock buybacks that have propped up executive pay through share price manipulation. This means rethinking our benefits systems and social safety nets to meet the needs of our modern economy. And this means substantially raising taxes on plutocrats like us who continue to capture the bulk of our nation’s economic gains. And yes, by all means let’s increase the Earned Income Tax Credit, even though it effectively socializes the cost of wages onto taxpayers. But keep in mind: the EITC currently costs $60 billion’ish per year. If we want to fill the trillion dollar per year hole in workers’ pockets, we’d need to raise it by about $940 billion per year."

slightly random

I was drawn by this phrase:

"invested in the sacred inefficiencies of the very human life"

Courtney E Martin essay, on On Being

I tell you, the relationship is its own reward

More pages from The Book of Love.

Various front and back covers, and first pages

I've capped the edition at 35. Fourteen are out in the world, either waiting patiently on the living room coffee table, or already winging their way to their proper owners. If you would like one of your own, there are 21 available. The cost is $110; international orders are $150. For a custom made box to store it in, add $45. Please write to me (Lara Scott) at The Metamer Quarterly, P.O. Box 725, Sherburne, NY, 13460.

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The Book of Love Comes Together, Right Now

I am back from an amazing bookbinding class with Erin Fletcher, who runs Herringbone Bindery, and is a graduate of The North Bennet St School in Boston. She's amazing, my classmates were lovely, and I learned a ton! And, got some advice on how to get out of the sticky corner I created for myself. So, Issue #3 is late, but moving!

Here are two versions of two spreads:

The Book of Love is in pieces

and that's a good thing. First, make all the pieces. Next, put them together...

(little art, big art, still for sale)

Chapel Talk number two, from my time at Greenville College

I wrote about love a couple times, and spoke on it, in the early aughts. So, as I am working industriously on The Book of Love, I thought I'd share some selections from those two talks. They are addresses to students at a Christian college, so they do talk about God a lot. (And use the masculine pronoun, something I would no longer do.) If those things would not please you, take a pass. I'll be posting more art in the next week or so.

This one is from 2005, and is on friendship, and the benefits of unrequited romantic desire.

....Friendship is a place where we see Jesus because, like marriage and unlike family, it is a place where we choose to act lovingly, rather than being required or obligated to love. We can choose to make our friends part of our family. We can choose to be obligated and responsible to them, to maintain relationships even when we live in different places or choose different paths. We can adopt our friends as God adopted us, made us His children. We are imitators of Christ in making lasting friendships.

My ideas about this come out of my experience as well as from conviction. I have many close friends, and they are the delight of my heart. I want to talk about one friendship in particular, my best friend Carolyn.

I have known Carolyn for 17 years, almost as long as some of you have been alive. We became friends in college, and hit it off right away. We clicked; there was chemistry, sparks, etc. In the first few years of our friendship, we often used the language of romantic love to describe our relationship – we would talk about how happy we were to know each other, describe one another as best beloved, and speak of how we felt God’s love through this relationship. It was a place where we learned to receive the delight of another person. In our friendship, we have seen Jesus’ love made manifest – God’s love that is spontaneous and joyful, that declares, “Best beloved, how glad I am to see you!”

Like an old married couple, we are not as effusive anymore. We don’t gush. But often when I call, I hear the delight in Carolyn’s voice; she is so glad to talk to me! I love to see her address in my incoming email list. When we visit each other, we chatter excitedly, we stay close together, following one another from room to room as I unpack or she does the dishes. Her friendship over 17 years has made me more hopeful and believing – knowing her makes me a better friend because love has an overflowing quality. It spills out onto other people; it can’t be contained. It embraces widely, even if it starts with the love between just two. I will tell you – that is how you know its real. It radiates out and makes you more generous, makes you more godly. Keep your eye out for that.

You can see that I am not opposed to romantic love; I like its language. I just want to point out that it is not confined to relationships that have or could have a sexual expression. It is not confined to dating or marriage. Romance, in the sense of a delight in the beloved, is all around us. It is in the love of parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. It is in the love of children for their siblings and friends. It is often the feeling that allows us to do difficult or risky things, to extend ourselves. It can soften our heart to be more generous with people who are harder for us to love, about whom we have more prickly feelings or with whom we are generally more sparing in our love. Romance is what gives us a kick-start. It’s the training wheels, helping us get rolling. Remember, love bears all things – loss, betrayal, loneliness, death. We are weak, and we need the hoping and believing of love to be affirmed for us, to give us strength for the hard parts. How generous God is with us! God does not make us wait for a marriage partner to bring love into our lives!

Which leads me to my next point. If friendships are a place to learn to hope all things and believe all things – to experience the delights of love, and see hope returned, fulfilled, where can we learn to endure all things and bear all things? Of course we can learn that in friendship – any place where we love and give our hearts can be a place where our hearts are broken, or we break someone else’s heart, or go through painful times with another person. My friend Carolyn and I have had some terrible fights over the last two decades. But I want you to think about the last time you felt betrayed in a relationship. Think about the last time your felt frustrated. What was it like? When did you last feel disappointed?

One of the places we feel loss most keenly is in romantic relationships, whether because they are going the way they almost always go, which is messily, or because they are going very badly, or because they are not going anywhere at all. We feel the disappointment of unrequited love so deeply. We feel the pain of romantic betrayal or loss like a punch in the gut, a stab in the chest, a weight that will not let us walk, a fog that seems endless. The pain of it seems eternal and hopeless.

So I want to offer this up as another place, besides marriage, where we learn to love. I think we can learn to bear all things and endure all things in unrequited love and in romantic relationships that fail.

I don’t want to suggest that we all become relational masochists. Instead, I want us to be a little like Hosea, and therefore, a little like God. Why does God tell Hosea to marry a woman who is a prostitute? Not the noble, unlucky Julia Roberts. A really broken woman who is persistent in her harlotry. God wants Hosea to live out God’s own love for us. God is the ultimate unrequited lover. He is the ultimate besotted, devoted lover who is constantly spurned. When you are denied the joy of your love being returned in like manner, you are close to God’s heart.

I am not drawing a straight line between Hosea and us. Again, I am not saying that we should be martyrs in love. But I want us to see our longings and desires that go unfulfilled as purposeful, real, a part of life that should not necessarily be avoided. I want us to focus not on the betrayal or the disappointment, but on the joy of delighting in someone. I dearly hope that the people who don’t return your love are not like Gomer, but maybe sometimes they are. More likely, they just don’t feel the same way that you do. The similarity is this – know that your love is valuable even if it is not reciprocated, for whatever reason. Your delight in your beloved is no less valid because this person cannot see you in exactly the same light, or choose to respond to passionate feelings in the same way that you do. Let’s let God be our guide – he loves even when that love is not returned. We may not be able to allure our lovers and give them vineyards, like God does. But we may be able to stretch our hearts in new ways. We may be able to give someone a gift; to know that they are loveable even if they cannot return our love in every way. We can learn that it is possible and even joyful to give without expecting something in return, and that we can be refused and live. We can survive rejection. How wonderful that we keep hoping! How wonderful that we have eyes to see someone’s beauty and loveable qualities! How splendid that our hearts are soft enough to long for connection and intimacy! It is evidence that we are alive. So rather than obsessing, rather than bemoaning our fate, rather than sinking into the pit of despair which is unrequited love, why not focus on the love? Let’s hope for the good of this person we love; pray for them, dream for them, as God dreams for us, even when we reject him. And, if we can, give them the freedom of choosing to be our friend, to extend the love they do have, even if it isn’t the passion that we wish they had.

And when our romances fail, when love is given and then withdrawn, or betrayed, or simply seems to have foundered and disappeared, again we have the opportunity to learn to bear and endure. I do not want to make light of this. The failure of a romance, of a dating relationship, of a marriage, is devastating. It can hollow us out, make us feel hopeless and fearful, broken. How we wish that it never happened! How we long for a paradise where all love is forever, never flagging, never uneven, never disappointing. How we long for a place where our devotion is never betrayed or trampled, never wasted or spit upon. How we long for a place where we are never tempted to betray, where we never are the ones who fail our beloveds, never disappoint, never make mistakes. One day we will be perfect, and love perfectly. And one day we will know in our hearts what is true even now – we are already perfectly loved by God. And imperfectly loved by our friends, our family, our romantic partners, and spouses, even by our exes. Let us press on and learn to receive the love that is given willingly, and delight in it, rather than focusing on what we do not have.

Whatever box we check – married, single, divorced – we are all trying to both give and receive love as God would have us do. We are learning to obey God. I believe that God wants to use all of our relationships to teach us about love in all its endlessness, its terrible persistence.

Jesus is a good model for us as people who desire and love imperfectly. Jesus loved his disciples boldly, fully, and wholly. He made himself their servant without making himself servile. He didn’t abandon his identity to them, but loved them with everything he had. Jesus provides the ultimate model of loving both recklessly and wisely, loving with both abandon and perspective. He will walk with us; we can take his yoke and learn from him. He is gentle and patient; he bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things with us and for us.

Jesus also gives us a model for how to make a family without a marriage partner. Jesus gives a message to his mother and brothers – “Who are my mother and brother and sisters? Those who do God’s will.” In a culture that valued bloodlines, genetic family, Jesus was pretty radical in saying that family was constituted differently. When he gives John to his mother, and his mother to John, he also makes a family in a new way. The story of Ruth also gives us a picture of family that is by choice, by faithfulness, by commitment, not by blood. “Your people will be my people.” We understand this in a marriage vow – without it, there would be no family at all. But what does it mean to say it to your friends, to be as faithful to them as you would be to your spouse, your mother, your father, your brother or sister? Ruth’s mother-in-law knows that she has nothing to offer Ruth, but Ruth’s faithfulness bears fruit both for herself and for Naomi. Think too of Jonathan and David, of Jesus, Mary, Martha, and Lazarus, of Jesus and John, of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. It is good to be devoted to your friends, and earnestly desire their good.

If you take anything away from this talk, take this. Learn to love right where you are. Love the friends in your life. Honor the love and desire you feel whether those feelings result in dating and marriage or not. In friendship, in family, in dating, in marriage, in every place that your heart is stirred, be glad and rejoice. You were meant to be in relationship, and God will use it all to teach you to be more like Him. Let your delights in the people around you be evident; don’t wait for True Romance to find delight in the beauty of the people in your life, or to express it. They are God’s presence with you. They are both the place where you learn to love, and the people who will help you to love both wisely and well, with both abandonment and clear-eyed discernment.

For those of us who want to marry, I believe God would love to give us a life partner who will be a help and joy to us. I am confident that God will do everything possible to make that happen, but we are not puppets, nor should we want to marry puppets. No one can guarantee marriage for us, and no one can guarantee that our marriage will go smoothly. Let’s remember -- marriage does not mean a permanent end to loneliness or to disappointment. It involves people, and therefore it will always be imperfect and sometimes painful. It is not salvation.

In the end, I’m not sure that God really cares whether or not we marry. Not because God wants you or me to suffer or be sad – I believe that God hears our cry for intimacy and will answer it. God will have mercy on us, because God’s own being is in relationship.

No, I think that God doesn’t care about whether we marry because love is bigger than marriage, and love is what God is concerned with. And love is with us already, we don’t have to wait for it. Love is what we do for our friends and our family, for the people in our lives now. Love is hoping for another’s good, longing for their good. It is choosing to express admiration, affection, devotion, concern, delight, no matter how clumsily. Love is persisting with one another, walking with one another, and receiving care from one another. You should do it everyday, like brushing your teeth and sleeping. Like exercise. Sometimes it’s effortless, and sometimes it takes an intentional act of will, of discipline. But let us love the LORD our God with the whole of our hearts, the whole of our souls, and the whole of our minds, and love our neighbors as ourselves, seeing them as beloved and delightful, fearfully and wonderfully made. On it depend all the law and the prophets – this is the stuff of life itself. 

The Metamer Quarterly launches a new campaign

I need to get back to my studio. But I didn't want to miss a chance to share more art, and more conversation.

So, as I clumsily expanded my email outreach on a holiday weekend, and ended my campaign on Memorial Day, I have relaunched a little campaign. To meet the additional demand I managed to generate, and give myself a little more room to maneuver.

Find it here:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-metamer-quarterly-part-two-books-art#/

and, if you are thinking you'd like to send a drawing, a little writing, something for possible inclusion in the Book of Love or a future issue, this is still the address:

TMQ
P.O. Box 725
Sherburne NY 13460

A Piece of the Sky

for more information, or to request a sky piece for yourself, click here.

Or, write to me at TMQ, P.O. Box 725, Sherburne, NY 13460

The Acrylic Color Wheel

A color wheel in acrylics. (I used GOLDEN fluid acrylics.)

Mounted on 8x10 illustration board.

If you'd like one, click here.

Color Wheel Preparation - Acrylics

Acrylics dry much faster
Click here to get your own color wheel in acrylic

Color Wheel Preparation - Oils

Oils Drying, preparation for color wheels
click here to get your own color wheel in oils

Love Love Love Blah Blah Blah

the metamer quarterly at indiegogo

How to Make Your Own Night Sky

Making a Map of the Stars

A short-ish instructional video, showing how I made the Gold Leaf Star Sky Maps. If you have questions about the supplies, please let me know! And as always, please consider subscribing. (links to my IndieGoGo campaign; several perks are subscriptions.)

color collage

and here is the new version...

if you want one of your own, click here!

in process

starting work on the color wheels, I found one I'd made in grad school.

(and check out the indiegogo campaign here)

Plan your work, and work your plan

Family lore says that one of my great-grandfather's favorite expressions was, "Plan your work, and work your plan." My plans have grown, and so I have launched an IndieGoGo campaign, which you can find here:
The Metamer Quarterly: Art You Can Hold

At every level you will receive original art, most of which is related to TMQ. Specific perks include framable versions of the star map with gold leaf stars and the color wheel. Several levels include one or more issues of the Quarterly. 
I hope you'll check it out. Or, just watch the fun video:
Getting organized, Mary Poppins style

What is a map for?

A Thing You Can Hold in Your Hands

What is a map for? To orient, to translate something too big to see all at once into a thing you can hold in your hands -- a road, the sky, the places you went when you were young.

What is a diagram? An explanation, another kind of map, of a shifting pattern, of the underlying structure of a complicated thing. It is a way to show someone else the idea in your head.


Maps and Diagrams

The Metamer Quarterly, Issue # 2

March 2017

Subscriptions still available. This issue is $50; mail checks to attn: Lara Scott, TMQ, P.O. Box 725, Sherburne, NY 13460.

(and the IndieGoGo campaign is here)

the movement of small green pieces of paper

New Price List

Effective March 2nd, 2017 August 31, 2017

As the Quarterly has unfolded, and as my ambitions for it have increased, it has become clear that it requires more time, more materials, and therefore more money to produce. It has also become clear that I chronically underestimate the cost of materials and time.

Here is the latest price list, which I dearly hope is the last change. If you have questions, please write to me at P.O. Box 725, Sherburne, NY 13460. Subscription requests can be sent, with payment, to the same address.

New pricing for individual issues

#1 - Metamerism --  forty-five dollars   Seventy-five dollars  ($75) no longer available

#2 - Maps & Diagrams -- fifty dollars    Eighty dollars  ($80) no longer available

#3 - The Book of Love -- Ninety dollars  ($90) no longer available

#4 - #8 -- eighty-two dollars each  Ninety-five dollars each  ($95)
(The subjects are The Sea (2 copies available), Time, <no subject>, The Cabin and the Stone House, and Sound)

Subscriptions

Issues #1 - #4  -- Purchase these first 4 issues for three hundred dollars.  ($300) no longer available

Issues #5 - #8 -- Purchase the second 4 issues for three hundred and forty dollars   ($340)

Thank you for your continued support. And yes, I am still looking for contributors and collaborators!

-- Lara Scott

a map of the night sky

One of the new pages for the next issue of The Metamer Quarterly, "Maps and Diagrams"

Star chart; locations are accurate, but sizes are not. Stars are made of 23kt gold leaf. Soft to the touch. Four charts in each issue; the whole sky.

If you would like to order a copy, please send your information to The Metamer Quarterly, PO Box 725, Sherburne, NY 13460. The cost for this individual issue is fifty dollars; please make checks out to Lara Scott, and put "TMQ - Maps and Diagrams" in the memo line.

The issue will ship on the Spring (Vernal) Equinox. Annual subscriptions are still available; please write for more information. (Prices have increased.)

(more star map options via IndieGoGo)

"The eye has knowledge the mind cannot share" - Hayden Carruth

We are all people of color

 

what color are you?

image from the Library of Congress

"While studying painting and printmaking...., Tomashi Jackson noticed that the language Josef Albers used to describe color perception phenomenon, in his 1963 instructional text Interaction of Color, mirrored the language of racialized segregation found in the transcripts of education policy and civil rights court cases fought by Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF). The discovery led Jackson to use the properties of color perception as an aesthetic strategy for investigating the history of American school desegregation and the contemporary resegregation of public space. The results are large-scale abstract works that connect past and present, formalism and intuition, languages of color theory and human rights legislation."

The Linguistic Overlap of Color Theory and Racism

More Views of Metamerism

More views of "Metamerism".  There are still 94 copies available. Each one is unique, but is made of the same or similar materials as the others. All include a genuine glass prism!

If you would like to order one, please send your order to The Metamer Quarterly, PO Box 725, Sherburne, NY 13460. The cost is forty-five dollars; please make checks out to Lara Scott, and put "TMQ - Metamerism" in the memo line.

The next issue is called "Maps and Diagrams" and will ship on the Spring (Vernal) Equinox. The cost of this individual issue is fifty dollars. Annual subscriptions are still available for one hundred and sixty.

If you have any questions, please write to me at the above address.

in process

more light and prisms

three pages, reverse, middle

Two prisms, one (left) refracting the light refracted through the other (top/center).









Metamerism ships with just one prism, but you can buy more at many scientific and education supply sites, such as eNasco.

prisms and editions

"Metamerism" is complete. Editions are still available. How does that work? Imagine them like handknit sweaters, all based on the same original pattern. Each one is unique, but is made of the same or similar materials as the others. If you would like to order one, please send your order to The Metamer Quarterly, PO Box 725, Sherburne, NY 13460. The cost is forty-five dollars; please make checks out to Lara Scott, and put "TMQ - Metamerism" in the memo line.

Here are a few images. One of the actually book, and a few of the fascinating prisms. A single glass prism is included in "Metamerism." For more about prisms and color, try a search on "Isaac Newton" and "Marcus Marci" and "prism."

More to follow.