THIS IS THE PRE-DOMINANT PATTERN OF THOSE PARTICULAR LETTERS AND NUMBERS.

ARRIVED AT BY NUMERICAL TRANSPOSITION OF THE LETTERS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ALPHABET.

 

AZIN A = 1 RIGHT THROUGH TO Z = 26.

 

ADD TO REDUCE

REDUCE TO DEDUCE

ESSENCE OF NUMBER.

 

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IMAGE OF THE WEEK: SURREALIST

"Where are the good painters of the 1970s In quite surprising places, very likely. One of them is in a West Yorkshire school for prison officers (of whom he is one) giving classes in first-aid. David Denison, who has a current exhibition at Ilkley Manor House, Yorkshire, is almost ,entirely self-taught. As a result he I has learned an astonishing skill
of a highly personal kind. He is a natural surrealist - a breed that is commoner in England than in more rational countries, but is very rare even here.
    His imagining has a sardonic poetry of its own. His Study of a Head, for example (right),(image omitted) builds spectacjes and dentures into the structur of a skull. Each eye- socket contains minutely glitter- ing machinery like a watch. Denison is great on eyes. In another picture, a bushy insect likeness of himself sits down to make a meal of a pair of eyeballs.
    'A reflective painter will often discern something cannibal in the way an artist consumes his experience and himself, but here, the arched brows and the clown- like red nose have the look of a Prime Minister of Mirth. The hilarity resides in the fantastic
human mix - the very combina- tion of ebullience and decrepitude that you can recognise in any pension queue. It is the living flesh of our time, shabbily facetious and libidinous but decayed and dependent on spare parts.
     Other Denison pictures are more sombre, poetic, or horrendous. Even in their farthest extremity there is often a quality of the real from which fantastic art is usually protected. One can sense that the painter is familiar with rigoursand incongruities that are by no means imaginary. A first-aid prison officer sees vio-lence and self-mutilation, and looks aggression and despair in the face - no painter can know better the constraints from which imagination is literally the only escape. Denison's best pictures have a quality of serious need.
     At 37 this remarkable painter is still little known, but Sir Roland Penrose reports that when Max Ernst came to England it was Denison that he wanted to hear about. In a year or two Denison will be famous and we shall ; wonder how we managed to neglect him.
David Denison's work will be on show at IIkley Manor House, Yorkshire until Yorkshire, until August 17."
Lawrence Gowing .