Rete
An anatomical mesh or network, as of veins, arteries, or nerves.
Ephemeral networks: an arboreal rete
What you don’t see here are the earnest midtown lunchers seeking out a place to sit quietly and feel an hour’s comfort without expectation. A park on 23rd Street defines itself by its absences, without grass we are able to see the ephemeral network of shadows that leave no mark of the day’s delimmas or joys.
Rete: Broadway Boogie Woogie
Piet Mondrian
Broadway Boogie Woogie (1942-1943)
Oil on canvas
50 x 50 in. (127 x 127 cm)
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
St. Nic at night
Rete: The Skin of Your Hand as a Network
Rete
Roller Coaster Rete on Coney Island
Rete: View from the Q train
Coney Island’s Wonder Wheel, a rete of steel—a radial zigzag; an arced fragment of New York’s subway rete; the red of an otherwise invisible electrical rete; and the window pane made visible by refraction, read by retes of rods, cones, and nerves.
Rete: “One Stream in a Maze of Rivers”, Mahhattan
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Cars zoom by. People walk purposefully. Motion flows in a collective direction. One stream in a maze of rivers. Full of motion, of life. The life of a city.
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Rete (n.): An anatomical mesh or network, as of veins, arteries, or nerves.
[Latin rete, net.]
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