Connecting Pipes (Facing Pipes)

Puffy, puffing, knitting pattern’s crotch: watch. I went back and traced Mr Time (see ‘Clockwork’ blog, 11/11/2010). The profile of his pipe-smoking face has a very similar pattern to the knitting pattern’s crotch; and as we have already seen (see last blog), the pattern made by the knitting pattern’s puffy crotch – when his crotch is transposed onto his nose - matches the pattern of his face. Look.

A Pattern Emerges

Tracing the knitting pattern, a pattern emerges. The curling, smoke-like rings of the wrought iron furniture and their correspondence with the A and g of Angora; the correlation between the shape of the pipe the A and g of Angora and whirling F of Furwul. 

Three creases were also traced, one in the photograph itself, the other, on the surface of the image. You always have to look, both, into and at a photograph, at the one and the same time: into model’s inexplicable crotch; at, the central cross – where the advert has been folded into four – like the sights of a gun aimed at his heart. The more I retraced the pattern, the more the crotch and the pipe knitted together.