connect-the-dots

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I had many thoughts yesterday regarding my interests. Still looking for images that work somehow as a surrogate for another image beyond. I remembered the connect-the-dots pictures when I was young. I think I enjoyed these. I recall that I often could "see" the completed image in advance of the activity. I also remember that they would often be litte bits of the image available. For example, the eye of some animal figure, or the leaf on an apple.

I also thought about the silhouette--a likeness cut from dark material and mounted on a light ground or one sketched in outline and solidly colored in. And finally, shadow-- an imperfect and faint representation, an imitation of something. Thus leading me to Plato and the allegory of the cave.

I began to think about making connect-the-dot images. These could be quite elegant. At first I thought of using words as the latent image. I could come up with an elaborate coding mechanism. In particular someting that would indicate a "jump space" to allow for the space between letters.