Fib and Let Eye

An ox-eye daisy (Leucanthemum sp.) with a harlequin ladybird, Harmonia axyridis, sitting at its center


Peri-Performative Post-Scriptum…

The title of this incendiary intervention refers to

1) The Fibonacci sequence present in the beautiful interlocking curves at the heart of the

2) daisy, whose name comes from Anglo-Saxon dæges ēage, meaning “day’s eye”.

3) The eye-like appearance of the daisy, with the ladybird like a slightly off-centered pupil

Osmic Ways


Post-Performative Post-Scriptum…

osmic adj. Of or relating to the sense of smell. Also: relating to odour. [ancient Greek ὀσμή, osmē, smell, odour + ‑ic suffix] — Oxford English Dictionary

Figure Philia

“I love figures, it gives me an intense satisfaction to deal with them, they’re living things to me, and now that I can handle them all day long I feel myself again.” — the imprisoned accountant Jean Charvin in W. Somerset Maugham’s short-story “A Man with a Conscience” (1939)