[Talk] Alain Touwaide - Villa Mondragone - 14 Oct. 2019

[R. Sale]

The coherence and incoherence perspective is interesting. Coherence is good, but what about incoherence. Where does it come from?

Could incoherence be a form of coherence that is unfamiliar to the reader? Could incoherence be based of an alternative form of interpretation that is unknown to the investigator?

Take the VMs cosmos as an example. Does the wobbly line make any sense to someone who only sees it as a wobbly line?? Not so much.

Now, take the same pattern and reinterpret it according to the traditional terminology derived from medieval heraldry. Now it is a nebuly line. Now it strongly ties in with the use of cloud-bands. Now it makes sense. Now the incomprehensible becomes comprehensible and the incoherent can be seen to be coherent according to previously unfamiliar traditional terminology.

The VMs is a game. The VMs is a puzzle as I have suggest years ago. Things have been hidden. They are difficult to see because the have been intentionally disguised They are difficult to understand because, like the nebuly line, the traditional name and interpretation have fallen into obscurity. Incoherence derives, at least in part, when unfamiliarity on the part of the investigator prevents the proper (traditional) interpretation of things that are clearly present.