They bring to mind traffic lights, Gerhard Richter's color charts, Josef Albers's squares, Blinky Palermo's stretched-fabric works and the game Twister, among other things.
It simply reflects a slowing down of mind-traffic, and therefore greater clarity and headspace.
"I didn't mind the traffic," he said, "but then a nightclub opened downstairs and noise became an issue.
"They clear your mind of traffic and bills and hectic situations, and you feel them in your heart," she said.
It brings to mind those traffic studies where the removal of lights, stop signs and other supposed safety measures heightens drivers' awareness, and thus everyone's actual safety.
COMMUTING to Manhattan by car has long meant enduring mind-numbing traffic and paying more and more for tolls, parking and gas.
The event proper starts at 20.00, I'm still in the office and so, bearing in mind the traffic, expect this sucker to start moving at 19.30.
How often have you been stuck in mind-numbing traffic and let your attention wane just for a second, only to snap to attention and realize you're about to rear-end the car ahead of you?
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg had a similar goal in mind — less traffic, more money for mass transit — when he pushed for a congestion fee of $8 to drive into Manhattan south of 60th Street.
As you sit through one of Bangkok's mind-numbing traffic jams, as every visitor inevitably will, you may find yourself wishing just such a cataclysm would wash the gridlock away.
