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.