ABSTRACT
The triolectic diagrams represent Jorn’s second attempt to draw his philosophical method. The first, in the spiral drawings, was probably abandoned because he could find no way of establishing a connection between the individual spirals. The triolectic diagrams appear just as isolated, but Jorn’s discovery of topology, during his search for insights from science and mathematics to further his artistic endeavours, led him to see that each triangle was a representative of an infinite series, the members of which grew out of and fell back into each other. Jorn’s statement that he was ‘aiming at a polydimensional cosmos at the surface’ applies just as much to his triolectic writings as to his painting. 2
