orphans and voids

The orphans are the last two Earth Branches (xu and hai), the two that remain after the Ten Stems are combined with the first ten branches. The voids are their two opposites plotted on a circle: the stems chen and si. [Lisa Raphals]

The only place where the two systems link is at the hole in the centre, which means that they link in a nowhere, or in a hole. This mysterious hole between the two worlds is in a one-sided way also represented in the Chinese incense clock. [Marie Louise von Franz]

Orphans and voids remains as a headless divination for obscure ourorack assemblages (ERD/TOAD, caput draconis and all the colours of the noise), for scattered concrete modules, including dismembered macros, printed circuit incense clocks, micro-pulsed laser, dusty GPUs, and ill programmed, ill abstracted, ill simulated neurons.

Images: Dieter Hartwig, Melissa Aguilar