Existential Strips #16
Momentous news in the art history world this week…
DaVinci’s “Future Codex” — an incomprehensibly valuable and important document — turned up in a shoebox full of yellowing documents purchased for $5 at a stoop sale in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn.
Long considered more myth than reality, art historians have speculated for centuries about the existence of this series of fever-dream sketches by the master, said to contain some of his most far-reaching visions from his distant future …
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We already know from his now iconic sketches that he presaged something like rotary-blade enabled flight …
But the LAPD ‘copter contained in Future Codex demonstrates virtually unimaginable foresight …
The image of Vitruvian Man is burned into the collective cerebral cortex…
But the guys at Metropolitan Museum archiving division are only just beginning to scratch their collective heads about this riff on human design…
His anatomical drawings have been, as we know, a testament to the power of human curiosity …
But what could be the meaning of this newly discovered image where, in a rare use of metaphor, Leonardo replaces the spine with a wooden flute …?
And finally this — one of the more darkly precise and mysterious images to emerge from the shoe box treasure.
He appears to not only foresees with stunning accuracy the invention of the hypodermic needle, but also seems to envisage using it to inject the entire solar system through the hollow-point of the needle.
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Thank You.
