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Asymmetry From All Angles

I don’t know about you, but I can’t make up my mind which is more appealing in art: symmetry or asymmetry. And this goes for all types of art, visual especially, even performance. For days now, I’ve been sifting through endless research on the subject, and one notable thing I’ve come up with is that there are a ton of overly complicated definitions of “symmetry” and “asymmetry.” The ones that I like most happen to be the simplest: SYMMETRY is the identical mirroring of something, while ASYMMETRY is the absence of symmetry. Still, no one (that I’ve found) has been able to define “asymmetry” without first defining “symmetry.” I wonder if asymmetry can stand on its own feet?

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