The figure of a dot, or spot, or circle is relative
to scale, the viewing distance. Curiously, each has a different implication:
the rain ‘spots’ the sidewalk before it pours down and covers
up the traces of individual raindrops. There is something individual about
a spot, uniqueness. A spot has its own discernible nature within an environment,
a specialness differentiated from the vast expanse of everywhere and everything;
it is itself, an individual.
When the spot grows in size, in scale within the environment, the spot becomes
a dot. The dot grows and becomes a circle, able to encompass space within
itself. The circle leaves behind the role of a non-place, a marker within
a place, it becomes a place in and of itself, an environment itself, it has
a character, an airspace, breadth, lateral dimension, it becomes a ‘where’,
an address.xx
dot
a small spot: speck
1 a small point made with a sharp instrument
2 a small round mark used in orthorgraphy
or punctuation
spot
2 a small area visibly different from the
surrounding area
5 a particular place, area, or part.
a particular place of action.
a particular position.
to locate or identify by a spot.
to single out: identify.
to locate accurately.
to fix as in the beam of a spotlight.
to cause a spot.
to act as a spotter: esp. to locate targets.
circle
circus, circle, akin, ring, akin to, halo.
1b a closed plane every point of which is equadistant
from a fixed point within the curve.
1d a circle formed on the surface of a sphere by the
intersection of a plane that passes through it.
4 an action or area of influence.
6 a group of persons sharing a common interest or
revolving around a common center.
Definitions from Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 10th edition.