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Keiji Uematsu

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“ What I want to do is to make visible existence, visible connections and visible relations appear more clearly. And to cause non-visible existence, non-visible connections and non-visible relations to appear. And to cause visible existence, visible connections and visible relations not to appear. ”  Keiji Uematsu, 1972  Horizontal Position, 1973 Wave Motion I , 1976   Interval three stones III, 1976 http://www.baudoin-lebon.com/fr/artistes/oeuvres/4378/keiji-uematsu

Relações entre Orion e Sirius

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Orion Sirius A and B (lower left) photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. "Sirius was known as Sothis to the ancient Egyptians, who were aware that it made its first heliacal rising (i.e., rose just before sunrise) of the  year  at about the time the annual floods were beginning in the  Nile River  delta. They long believed that Sothis caused the Nile floods, and they discovered that the heliacal rising of the star occurred at intervals of 365.25 days rather than the 365 days of their calendar year, a correction in the length of the year that was later incorporated in the  Julian calendar . Among the ancient Romans, the hottest part of the year was associated with the heliacal rising of the Dog Star, a connection that survives in the expression “ dog days .” Sirius é localizada na constelação do 'Cão Maior' e a melhor forma de a localizar é através do 'cinto' de Orion, como indica a imagem abaixo.  Ambas as constelações, tinham uma fort