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Title Page
Late in 1996 I planned to visit France to see the work of Charles Jeanneret “Le Corbusier”, a journey I called the Kaxa Lecorbu. In the vein of naming sketchbooks after erstwhile or hoped-for relationships, the sketchbook of choice for the kaxa bore the name of Samaðenâ /suh-MAW-then-ung/ a controversial relationship from 1993-1994. The sketchbook would be a travelogue, two pages of travel journal, one page of ballpoint ink sketches. I decided ballpoint was rugged enough to travel in a backpack for a couple weeks. In tests, I found I could even draw in light rain, under nearly any thermal condition except very cold weather. A couple pens were a cheap and highly portable, clean set of implements. A sketch would have to develop per day. Like all sketchbooks to this point, This title page bears the name, dedication, and address of the “studio reneya”, my fabled studio, more of a hope than actuality. The blue-calendar date (trakaðsyne), which states time elapsed since 1 July 1970 in periods of 432 and 36 days, is written under the lrixe name of the sketchbook, Rykami Samaënâ Reneya at the upper right. (Currently I strictly use the red calendar date, in periods of xisaën or life-stages of 1728 days and xrga or life-phases of 144 days.) “Samaënâ” was the spelling of Samaðenâ at the time. The ballpoint portrait resembles Samaðenâ rather faithfully, drawn from a photograph of her. Produced 4 May 1997 = Tayya 5810, five dozen eighth phase (Ñixaþ-Alindðal Xrga).
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