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Amounts, dice, 2017
The amount of 1 is the only amount referencing an inside world: the notion of the self, the individual. At the same time, counting one's self inevitably leads to the unconscious recognition of an other amount: namely that which isn't counted. Accordingly so, every amount is as much about the number we give to it as that which isn't part of that amount. Associatively we understand the number 2 as the amount that stands for duality. The right and wrong, the left and right, the black and white, the inner and outer. At the same time, in the counting of two things, one should consider there is always that which is not counted: a void, a nothingness, negativity—whatever you want to name it. Ironically enough, in this light, we can think of the number 2, as the embodiment of the amount of 3. That is, if one is willing to acknowledge nothingness as something. This notion is not about a rational view of counting, rather it offers a holistic point of view that recognizes 'zero' as infinitely part of eveything, always.
Everything is always partly 0 and nothing is only 1.
Study for Meditations on a Circle, tin, sticker, 2016