Similarity in graphical mechanism?
[ by Charles Cameron — a matter of visual rhetoric, NYT’s Trump and Magritte ]
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I’m intuiting that these two graphical representations somehow use the same visual logic to achieve their ends:
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If I was more alert in some semi-defined sense, I’d be able to diagram them in a manner similar to that which Douglas Hofstadter uses to diagram the conceptual working of MC Escher‘s hands drawing hands —
— another brilliant ouroboros, for those who are keeping count!
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How does “let not thy left hand know what thy right hand doeth:” fit into this (Escher) picture?
