Marcel Duchamp
Nude Descending a
Staircase, No.2

Duchamp & I CHING

 Sensing 

 Travel 

 Reduction 

 Abundance 

 Stripping Away 

 Nourishment 

 Discipline 

 Mountain/Thunder 

 Water & Fire 

DUCHAMP CODE
 
ZUIHUUKAN
H O M E
 
 
 
 
漸       Gradual Progress
 
Things cannot end up stopped;
if there is stopping,
there must be progress.
This is principle of
contraction and expansion,
waning and waxing.
Stopping comes from progress
and it returns to progress.
.....
Gradual Progress as a woman marries
is suspicious.

 I CHING (The Book of Change), tr. by Thomas Cleary

 to JAPANESE
 
 
 
 
 


Nude Descending a Staircase, No.2, 1912
Philadelphia Museum of Art