A Cipher Collage

This piece is a response to Blaise Pascal's Pensee #276: "If two people are talking nonsense, and one sees a double meaning understood by adepts, while the other sees only a single meaning, any uninitiated person who heard them talking like this would judge them alike. But if he first goes on to say angelic things and the other always banal commonplaces, he would judge that one was talking mystically, but not the other, since one has shown clearly enough that he is incapable of such nonsense and capable of a mystic meaning, while the other has shown himself incapable of a mystic meaning and capable of nonsense. The Old Testament is a cipher." It's one of a large series made with only red, black, and grey cut paper; the limited palette helps establish a tight, dynamic visual language to try and match that of Pascal. Made with archival paper. A unique piece that comes in hand-painted artist frame.