Bursting the bubble
For those of us in academia, there is a certain ‘bubble’ which we live in and which I will soon be bursting out of (a scary thought, to say the least). Part of our bliss is job security but the other part is our single-track minds which we’ve devoted to areas of study or research– unless we are directly impacted or affected by something, we have very little time to devote to the topic.
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Out of found imagery . . .
. . . emerges pattern. Using a cardboard square as my starting point, I quickly created three photocopies and used those as the modular pieces (or starting points) for three more complex patterns. Once these patterns were created, I continued working with the concept of refinement over time (as is a quality of emergence) as well as degradation over time (as with photocopies) and tried to enhance that through my over-printing techniques.
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Pattern seeking
As I looked over the photographs I had taken of everyday emergence, I identified the modular unit of repetition within a few and started to create pattern units from these.
Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving :: travel :: family :: food >> emergence?
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I need to put my money where my mouth is and ‘embrace the process’ (like I’m so prone to say) as well as put faith in the process.
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Continue reading »So emergence walks into a bar…
Last night as I was trying to fall asleep (what a joke these days), I thought about something Jasper said (also probably a joke): “Can you observe emergence in a bar?” Truth is you can– in fact, it’s quite easy.
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