Aesthetics, Art History, metaphors and concepts…
Transience in Aesthetics
Beauty of form in shape, symmetry, contour, pattern or design is always enhanced, augmented in direct proportion to its transience…
Extrasensory Perfection
The revelations of quantum theory and relativistic cosmology would once have appeared to be outright lunacy…
Ego and Empire
I find myself endlessly amazed that we have not yet grown past the Age of Empire and Ego…
Doctor Who ?
In an infinite Universe, anything that can happen *will* happen…
Shadows
Are shadows merely the poor cousins of reflections ?
Systemic Metamorphosis
Our global bureaucracies (on all scales) can not match pace with the accelerating rates of systemic change within which they find themselves…
Infinite Improbability
On the topic of infinite improbability…
Metrics
The value of science as an open-ended creative enterprise is in its unremitting incompleteness and perennial iterative process of what is ultimately self-discovery…
Once in a Lifetime
This is not my life…
Impossible destinations
Honesty with other people can be difficult; honesty with ourselves can prove to be impossible…
The Problem of Evil
When bad things happen to good people…