Consider this unravelling vessel, this body…
Tag: time
Building Blocks
It seems that we require the constant validation of the simplest narrative building blocks and a recurrent reinforcement of superficial trivialities…
Inflection
Cultural and technological change and progress is an acceleration measured relative to its own process…
Systems continuity and the emergence of useful, creative complexity harnesses the implicit and constitutive logical discontinuity of a holistic systems theory in mischievous ways…
Finite cross-section of infinite systems; complex iterations in a conceptual vocabulary…
…we are living in an accelerating moment in which the sane and rational present paradigm might become the quaint or absurdly inconsistent (or at least incomplete) assumption of an earlier era…
Transience
If we lived forever we might never value what time we have…
Like moths to some narcotic flame…
Transience in Aesthetics
Beauty of form in shape, symmetry, contour, pattern or design is always enhanced, augmented in direct proportion to its transience…
Doctor Who ?
In an infinite Universe, anything that can happen *will* happen…
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 […]
The Compass of Time
This was a brief poem I wrote in 2001. The overall feeling is of loneliness and observing emptiness in others…