What am I actually painting when I paint an image of a Platonic solid?
Not the dodecahedron itself — that doesn’t exist anywhere. It’s a pure form, defined by geometry, never by matter. What I’m painting is a representation of something that can only be perfect in the abstract.
The dodecahedron has twelve pentagonal faces. In Plato’s cosmology it was assigned to the heavens — the form used to arrange the constellations. I’m not painting the cosmos either. I’m painting a surface that points toward an idea.
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