If we lived forever we might never value what time we have…
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Like moths to some narcotic flame…
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Transience in Aesthetics
Beauty of form in shape, symmetry, contour, pattern or design is always enhanced, augmented in direct proportion to its transience…
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Doctor Who ?
In an infinite Universe, anything that can happen *will* happen…
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Aesthetics, Language, History
It only takes a few colours, a few shapes for the human mind to impose order upon otherwise patterned chaos. Visual processing largely follows its own logical rules, not unlike language, physics or mathematics. Just as with language, visual aesthetics and the logical intelligibility of any specific imagery is partially hard-wired in the brain as […]
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The Compass of Time
This was a brief poem I wrote in 2001. The overall feeling is of loneliness and observing emptiness in others…
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Surrendering to Change
A Conservative fear of identity dissolution underlies a significant proportion of humanity’s political, social and interpersonal pathologies…
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Time
Time is fundamentally mysterious. In many ways it is the most intimate and omnipresent feature of our existence – what could be more readily apparent than duration, lived experience, memory or the ever-ticking memento of personal mortality which the clock represents ?
I remember a print hung on a wall in my father’s house when I was a child. I puzzled and fretted and stared and wondered about this image and it’s impossible, unsettling reality. The print was of M.C. Escher’s 1953 lithograph “Relativity” and I was probably only 9 or 10 years old at the time. […]
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Rationalising the Temporal
Is the experience of time merely a biological curiosity or psychological artefact, a happy accident of life as an aggregate of structural coincidences at a particular nexus and scale of physics and chemistry ?
Context: What is the shape of the Universe ? Cosmologists believe that they have successfully measured the curvature of the large scale structure of the Universe and that it has returned a result of zero. To understand curvature in this context – consider a triangle on a flat sheet of paper: its angles always add […]
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