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“Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms” Jorge Luís Borges
For years many of the people whom I have known, who have either lived in Mexico, or travelled there, have told me how amazing it is to see in markets how fruits are displayed in perfect symmetry.
I believe that symmetry is an innate way of looking in all of us. But as soon as we get a bit older, look around, travel, we begin to see the wonders of asymmetry.
I will never forget (does anybody else remember) how the Rambler American was a car in which the passenger door was larger than the driver’s door. It may have been the first asymmetrical car.
Much was written in the last century how some famous female models were particularly notable because their faces were asymmetrical. Don’t we all have asymmetrical faces? Is this why we notice something is wrong when we flip a portrait?
I will never forget (does anybody else remember) how the Rambler American was a car in which the passenger door was larger than the driver’s door. It may have been the first asymmetrical car.
In this century thanks to the smart phone, selfies and portraits with telephones usually show both sides of the face equally lit. It would seem that the wonder of Rembrandt lighting has been forgotten.
For me the absolute proof that life is not symmetrical is the placement of our heart in our chest.
