Spines of 3-dimensional manifolds
No. 99, 1972
(Theory of 3-dimensional manifolds)
India ink and pencil on paper, 30.5x43 cm.
A corner of the universe. Stone building. Veined roof Lost souls. Ribbed sky. Consider this a meditation on the spines of three-dimensional manifolds, spines that can in a sense be considered each manifolds private code. If you cut a manifold and then contract it onto a two- dimensional skeleton, you can virtually create a spine. Like the genes of life, the spine contains nearly all the critical information about the manifold itself
