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Item code PE8
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Item code PE10
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Solid brass.
Item code NA8
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Item code NA11
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Item code NA12
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Solid brass.
Item code NA5
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Ornaments

What is an ornament?

Ornament is born of a primary and elemental urge. It tries to make sense of the world and make the world make sense.

The energies that give rise to conscious art are first found in ornament. In many cultures art takes no other form.

Ornament is high art hidden everywhere.

Ornament is the stylistic signature of time and place and peoples.

Ornament mirrors the structures of cosmologies (or is even cognate with them in the sense that cosmologies may be born out of the repertoire of ornament). The rings, stratifications, branchings etc. in nature inform ornamental and cosmological systems alike.

Ornament is a universal language that is transmitted by contact, trade and knowledge: its essence is universally understood even when its sources of symbolism have become arcane.

This essence is the visual grammar of the ornament and has priority over any reference it encodes.

Such universality is made possible by the relatively small generative syntax of ornament.

These syntactical elements are all paraphrases of nature; stripe, hatching, dot and the whole treasury of primal signs are all present in nature.

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