I'm trying to Citrus it, but I'm getting five different etymologies: How did Speni Pyramidic Art get its name? (There wasn't *actually* a pyramid involved, was there? That etymology is wrong, right?)
oh! okay so, unfortunately there’s some dissent about the origin of the name, because there was a falling out in the speni arthouse that coined the name, and not all the relevant records were digitized. I’ll explain the one I find most compelling, because it best matches the core components of the style
so, originally it was purely a weird visual art style. the first artwork was about trying to show all sides of an opaque three-dimensional object, such as a pyramid, at once, both literally and metaphorically. some of it focuses on unfolding into a net then reconstructing the object from that view behind it, some of it focuses on giving enough background detail to really thoroughly infer the existence of the back, and some focuses on superimposing all views. stories in the speni pyramidic style are usually written with the goal of thoroughly depicting a specific small situation, and showing it from all the relevant people’s perspectives, and sometimes even organizational or environmental perspectives. parts told from characters’ perspectives also often use long and precise sentences, and describe tiny aspects their surroundings in great and psychologically-revealing detail, to further evoke different literal perspectives.
anyway, for these reasons, such stories are often highly philosophical psychological grass-inspecting rambling literary slogs. I think The Office, Pale by Esathi Kiletis (?) is the most central example inflicted on art or literature history students, it’s been pretty widely translated, although the language is still kinda archaic
(and it has literally nothing to do with ‘leen pyramidal art)









