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Moment Tensor
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Chapter image collages try to pack images from the story. They try to sum up in one image, one visual gestalt what the chapter is trying to convey with all those words. In the image at right you have various charts of seismic wave behavior fanning out in 3D. The landscape of cragy fjords and water waves suggest that land is waves in long geological time. The standing man in the center is shown warped by forces behind him. On each side are "beachball" representations of the symmetry of tension and compression forces of the seismic waves through landscape. The story of the chapter is told in theatrical screen dialog by the anima called Sybil. We see her addressing the camera as she performs her ballet /tai chi ritual in the forest. We see her in her apartment. She becomes identified with the green politics of Gaia, and rants a bit. The Moment Tensor is a mathematical object, a matrix in which the rows and columns are populated by data from at least 3 seismic sensors. This 3D triangulation allows user to compute the source in space and depth of the earthquake event from the time-staggered apperances on the disparate sismgraphs. There is a play on the word moment: it means both an instant of time and the distribution of rotational forces about a central axis. In probability the mean and standard deviation are the 1st and 2nd order moments around a probability event. Just as velocity and acceleration are 1st and 2nd order derivatives specifying the movement or change of an object from undergoing discoverable forces. Seeing Through the Spell of Transference is a phenomenological exploration of the self by way of using art as amplification and spiritual practice. Walker if trying to find his way to this while working with geology to understand the myth of Gaia. |
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The chapter Moment Tensor attempts to amplify an encounter with the anima archetype.