Dear Dmitri,
Thank you for sending us this beautiful text
that begins with a suggestion of "anamorphosis" then goes on to
"anamorphism" in a smooth, non genealogical transition:
"the duration of a species, its sitting as a
model, its presence before nature's mirror..." into "to say that, over
the centuries, one species evolves into another... is to disrupt, to the same
degree, the basic idea of species...until we admit it was not species that
evolved in nature, but the very concept of species..."
The paragraphs you mailed seem to allude
to an evolutionary balance that shall be achieved, one
day, between our perceiving mind and the ever developing world. I
only wish it were possible for me to be somehow alive to share
this amazing revelation.
It is curious that the book which led me to think
about anamorphosis ( and that bears no relation to it, or so I thought) is
constituted by a series of drawings that represent nature
in Atlantis - where mythical crawling roots turn into snakes
and hydrangea blossoms into butterflies. Nevertheless, your verbal
description and testimony bears only a very superficial semblance to the
imaginary game played by the artist.
Jansy