The Great Order of the Universe
![The Great Order of the Universe by Christian Bök](/images/features/TheGreatOrderOfTheUniverse.jpg)
Notes:
“The Great Order of the Universe” is a response to the fiftieth anniversary of the LEGO patent. Using a conceptual strategy reminiscent of Sol LeWitt, the image enumerates every possible way of combining two LEGO bricks, each with eight pegs. The caption consists of two texts: the first, a translated paragraph from a volume by Democritus; the second, a transcribed paragraph from the patent by Godtfred Kirk Christiansen. The two paragraphs are perfect anagrams of each other.
Source: Poetry (July/August 2009)