For the first time I'm feeling the need to have lines of communication open, I'm not used to having things I< actually need to care about. I wasn't able to actually submit work for the show.  I hope they didn't type my name on anything important yet.  I had been painting the week of the deadline but I still hadn't come up with anything I was interested in showing.  Since then I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere with my painting.  It's a long and involved process making art and it's no easy task just to get things to start "living". It's been a truly profound read, life changing stuff. I have so many things to address yet and hardly as much time as I would prefer to thoughtfully and fully write this email.  I doubt we'll be able to set up any sort of meeting this time.  Have a good time diving back into school work and I'll let you know when I get a cell phone back. Oh yeah happy new year.  I think 2012 is going to be an interesting year.  I wish i had more time to recollect all things I want to discuss with you but I suppose it'll have to wait. Unbelievable stuff.  Your influences interest me very deeply.  I can't begin to put in words my exploration into the connections between philosophy, religion, and art as of the past couple of weeks. I've been falling further and further into the fact that all activities to humans employ our creative and logical capacities.  Furthermore it is merely an act of acknowledgment that brings the facets and mediums of our creation to the foreground for our usage.  It is funny because like religion one can choose not to believe or acknowledge on the basis of lack of empirical data, this doesn't change the fact that believing (seeing) is proof of the potency of religion.   Creativity has always appeared to me as the amount of elements one has knowledge and control of.  When I begin to think about the extent that which materials and concepts can be used, I'm overwhelmed. I look forward to when we can actually get together and discuss things.  You are my most valued colleague, keep up the good work and thank you for sharing all this with me. I just had an interesting thought which reminded me of some of your interesting work.  I was thinking about that "cellular" (as in cell based).  I don't know if you remembered but i once mentioned the concept of humanity suffering a collective trauma.  If humanity can suffer a "collective trauma", what else could it experience collectively.  Then, drop collectively, what happens if we see humanity as an autonomous being?  Then because I'm an artist I asked what would that organism look like what characteristics would it have?  Humor this if you have the time. I was just talking to Vishal today about emergence (does this constitute the emergence of emergence?).  Playing with geometry really demonstrates the power of forms.  When I say "playing"  what I mean is that I'll take a shape and just see how many more shapes I can make out of it, as well as how many different shapes I can divide it into.  For me this speaks volumes about reality, aesthetics, spirituality and higher consciousness.  To look at a shape and understand that within is the potential for infinite expansion, well changes the way I look at a shape.  Vishal told me about Buddhist "Mandala" drawings which contain this property and employ it very effectively, you should check them out if you're not familiar with them. Your vision of the collective human entity, a being of consumption and expansion seems in tune with my own ideas. The human mind is the only thing that turns software (stimuli) into hardware (neuro networks and physiological changes). Maybe I'm being an optimist but, in line with my thoughts on geometry, I've been thinking a great deal about the "constructive force", and seeing art, music, and aesthetics in general as being indicative a constructive force. I don't want to keep you too long.  I'm sure you're up to some fantastic work so keep it up.  Thanks for taking the time to chat with me.  By the way I got a new cell phone/number, feel free to call/text me anytime.  No thought is ever finished, that's why I like to stick near the good ones.  I thought a bit about the idea of damaging ideas myself.  Certainly we could make the skeptical argument that people are damaging not the ideas themselves.  This is asinine because ideas are an exclusive human property anyhow.  They are part of our interface.  It seems that the ideas that are inhibitory or exclusive are the ones we liberal folk like to call damaging or detrimental and the irony is that from an evolutionary perspective it would be completely profitable as a society to be suspicious and aggressive towards people or things dissimiliar from ourselves.  But we know better now so it's no excuse.   Here's a better question to ruminate on:  Are works of Art Ideas? Often when I see people very depressed this inspires me.  As artists we have a different role, part of playing that role successfully requires us to act in a less than conventional way. For the first time I'm feeling the need to have lines of communication open, I'm not used to having things I< actually need to care about. I wasn't able to actually submit work for the show.  I hope they didn't type my name on anything important yet.  I had been painting the week of the deadline but I still hadn't come up with anything I was interested in showing.  Since then I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere with my painting.  It's a long and involved process making art and it's no easy task just to get things to start "living". It's been a truly profound read, life changing stuff. I have so many things to address yet and hardly as much time as I would prefer to thoughtfully and fully write this email.  I doubt we'll be able to set up any sort of meeting this time.  Have a good time diving back into school work and I'll let you know when I get a cell phone back. Oh yeah happy new year.  I think 2012 is going to be an interesting year.  I wish i had more time to recollect all things I want to discuss with you but I suppose it'll have to wait. Unbelievable stuff.  Your influences interest me very deeply.  I can't begin to put in words my exploration into the connections between philosophy, religion, and art as of the past couple of weeks. I've been falling further and further into the fact that all activities to humans employ our creative and logical capacities.  Furthermore it is merely an act of acknowledgment that brings the facets and mediums of our creation to the foreground for our usage.  It is funny because like religion one can choose not to believe or acknowledge on the basis of lack of empirical data, this doesn't change the fact that believing (seeing) is proof of the potency of religion.   Creativity has always appeared to me as the amount of elements one has knowledge and control of.  When I begin to think about the extent that which materials and concepts can be used, I'm overwhelmed. I look forward to when we can actually get together and discuss things.  You are my most valued colleague, keep up the good work and thank you for sharing all this with me. I just had an interesting thought which reminded me of some of your interesting work.  I was thinking about that "cellular" (as in cell based).  I don't know if you remembered but i once mentioned the concept of humanity suffering a collective trauma.  If humanity can suffer a "collective trauma", what else could it experience collectively.  Then, drop collectively, what happens if we see humanity as an autonomous being?  Then because I'm an artist I asked what would that organism look like what characteristics would it have?  Humor this if you have the time. I was just talking to Vishal today about emergence (does this constitute the emergence of emergence?).  Playing with geometry really demonstrates the power of forms.  When I say "playing"  what I mean is that I'll take a shape and just see how many more shapes I can make out of it, as well as how many different shapes I can divide it into.  For me this speaks volumes about reality, aesthetics, spirituality and higher consciousness.  To look at a shape and understand that within is the potential for infinite expansion, well changes the way I look at a shape.  Vishal told me about Buddhist "Mandala" drawings which contain this property and employ it very effectively, you should check them out if you're not familiar with them. Your vision of the collective human entity, a being of consumption and expansion seems in tune with my own ideas. The human mind is the only thing that turns software (stimuli) into hardware (neuro networks and physiological changes). Maybe I'm being an optimist but, in line with my thoughts on geometry, I've been thinking a great deal about the "constructive force", and seeing art, music, and aesthetics in general as being indicative a constructive force. I don't want to keep you too long.  I'm sure you're up to some fantastic work so keep it up.  Thanks for taking the time to chat with me.  By the way I got a new cell phone/number, feel free to call/text me anytime.  No thought is ever finished, that's why I like to stick near the good ones.  I thought a bit about the idea of damaging ideas myself.  Certainly we could make the skeptical argument that people are damaging not the ideas themselves.  This is asinine because ideas are an exclusive human property anyhow.  They are part of our interface.  It seems that the ideas that are inhibitory or exclusive are the ones we liberal folk like to call damaging or detrimental and the irony is that from an evolutionary perspective it would be completely profitable as a society to be suspicious and aggressive towards people or things dissimiliar from ourselves.  But we know better now so it's no excuse.   Here's a better question to ruminate on:  Are works of Art Ideas? Often when I see people very depressed this inspires me.  As artists we have a different role, part of playing that role successfully requires us to act in a less than conventional way. For the first time I'm feeling the need to have lines of communication open, I'm not used to having things I< actually need to care about. I wasn't able to actually submit work for the show.  I hope they didn't type my name on anything important yet.  I had been painting the week of the deadline but I still hadn't come up with anything I was interested in showing.  Since then I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere with my painting.  It's a long and involved process making art and it's no easy task just to get things to start "living". It's been a truly profound read, life changing stuff. I have so many things to address yet and hardly as much time as I would prefer to thoughtfully and fully write this email.  I doubt we'll be able to set up any sort of meeting this time.  Have a good time diving back into school work and I'll let you know when I get a cell phone back. Oh yeah happy new year.  I think 2012 is going to be an interesting year.  I wish i had more time to recollect all things I want to discuss with you but I suppose it'll have to wait. Unbelievable stuff.  Your influences interest me very deeply.  I can't begin to put in words my exploration into the connections between philosophy, religion, and art as of the past couple of weeks. I've been falling further and further into the fact that all activities to humans employ our creative and logical capacities.  Furthermore it is merely an act of acknowledgment that brings the facets and mediums of our creation to the foreground for our usage.  It is funny because like religion one can choose not to believe or acknowledge on the basis of lack of empirical data, this doesn't change the fact that believing (seeing) is proof of the potency of religion.   Creativity has always appeared to me as the amount of elements one has knowledge and control of.  When I begin to think about the extent that which materials and concepts can be used, I'm overwhelmed. I look forward to when we can actually get together and discuss things.  You are my most valued colleague, keep up the good work and thank you for sharing all this with me. I just had an interesting thought which reminded me of some of your interesting work.  I was thinking about that "cellular" (as in cell based).  I don't know if you remembered but i once mentioned the concept of humanity suffering a collective trauma.  If humanity can suffer a "collective trauma", what else could it experience collectively.  Then, drop collectively, what happens if we see humanity as an autonomous being?  Then because I'm an artist I asked what would that organism look like what characteristics would it have?  Humor this if you have the time. I was just talking to Vishal today about emergence (does this constitute the emergence of emergence?).  Playing with geometry really demonstrates the power of forms.  When I say "playing"  what I mean is that I'll take a shape and just see how many more shapes I can make out of it, as well as how many different shapes I can divide it into.  For me this speaks volumes about reality, aesthetics, spirituality and higher consciousness.  To look at a shape and understand that within is the potential for infinite expansion, well changes the way I look at a shape.  Vishal told me about Buddhist "Mandala" drawings which contain this property and employ it very effectively, you should check them out if you're not familiar with them. Your vision of the collective human entity, a being of consumption and expansion seems in tune with my own ideas. The human mind is the only thing that turns software (stimuli) into hardware (neuro networks and physiological changes). Maybe I'm being an optimist but, in line with my thoughts on geometry, I've been thinking a great deal about the "constructive force", and seeing art, music, and aesthetics in general as being indicative a constructive force. I don't want to keep you too long.  I'm sure you're up to some fantastic work so keep it up.  Thanks for taking the time to chat with me.  By the way I got a new cell phone/number, feel free to call/text me anytime.  No thought is ever finished, that's why I like to stick near the good ones.  I thought a bit about the idea of damaging ideas myself.  Certainly we could make the skeptical argument that people are damaging not the ideas themselves.  This is asinine because ideas are an exclusive human property anyhow.  They are part of our interface.  It seems that the ideas that are inhibitory or exclusive are the ones we liberal folk like to call damaging or detrimental and the irony is that from an evolutionary perspective it would be completely profitable as a society to be suspicious and aggressive towards people or things dissimiliar from ourselves.  But we know better now so it's no excuse.   Here's a better question to ruminate on:  Are works of Art Ideas? Often when I see people very depressed this inspires me.  As artists we have a different role, part of playing that role successfully requires us to act in a less than conventional way. For the first time I'm feeling the need to have lines of communication open, I'm not used to having things I< actually need to care about. I wasn't able to actually submit work for the show.  I hope they didn't type my name on anything important yet.  I had been painting the week of the deadline but I still hadn't come up with anything I was interested in showing.  Since then I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere with my painting.  It's a long and involved process making art and it's no easy task just to get things to start "living". It's been a truly profound read, life changing stuff. I have so many things to address yet and hardly as much time as I would prefer to thoughtfully and fully write this email.  I doubt we'll be able to set up any sort of meeting this time.  Have a good time diving back into school work and I'll let you know when I get a cell phone back. Oh yeah happy new year.  I think 2012 is going to be an interesting year.  I wish i had more time to recollect all things I want to discuss with you but I suppose it'll have to wait. Unbelievable stuff.  Your influences interest me very deeply.  I can't begin to put in words my exploration into the connections between philosophy, religion, and art as of the past couple of weeks. I've been falling further and further into the fact that all activities to humans employ our creative and logical capacities.  Furthermore it is merely an act of acknowledgment that brings the facets and mediums of our creation to the foreground for our usage.  It is funny because like religion one can choose not to believe or acknowledge on the basis of lack of empirical data, this doesn't change the fact that believing (seeing) is proof of the potency of religion.   Creativity has always appeared to me as the amount of elements one has knowledge and control of.  When I begin to think about the extent that which materials and concepts can be used, I'm overwhelmed. I look forward to when we can actually get together and discuss things.  You are my most valued colleague, keep up the good work and thank you for sharing all this with me. I just had an interesting thought which reminded me of some of your interesting work.  I was thinking about that "cellular" (as in cell based).  I don't know if you remembered but i once mentioned the concept of humanity suffering a collective trauma.  If humanity can suffer a "collective trauma", what else could it experience collectively.  Then, drop collectively, what happens if we see humanity as an autonomous being?  Then because I'm an artist I asked what would that organism look like what characteristics would it have?  Humor this if you have the time. I was just talking to Vishal today about emergence (does this constitute the emergence of emergence?).  Playing with geometry really demonstrates the power of forms.  When I say "playing"  what I mean is that I'll take a shape and just see how many more shapes I can make out of it, as well as how many different shapes I can divide it into.  For me this speaks volumes about reality, aesthetics, spirituality and higher consciousness.  To look at a shape and understand that within is the potential for infinite expansion, well changes the way I look at a shape.  Vishal told me about Buddhist "Mandala" drawings which contain this property and employ it very effectively, you should check them out if you're not familiar with them. Your vision of the collective human entity, a being of consumption and expansion seems in tune with my own ideas. The human mind is the only thing that turns software (stimuli) into hardware (neuro networks and physiological changes). Maybe I'm being an optimist but, in line with my thoughts on geometry, I've been thinking a great deal about the "constructive force", and seeing art, music, and aesthetics in general as being indicative a constructive force. I don't want to keep you too long.  I'm sure you're up to some fantastic work so keep it up.  Thanks for taking the time to chat with me.  By the way I got a new cell phone/number, feel free to call/text me anytime.  No thought is ever finished, that's why I like to stick near the good ones.  I thought a bit about the idea of damaging ideas myself.  Certainly we could make the skeptical argument that people are damaging not the ideas themselves.  This is asinine because ideas are an exclusive human property anyhow.  They are part of our interface.  It seems that the ideas that are inhibitory or exclusive are the ones we liberal folk like to call damaging or detrimental and the irony is that from an evolutionary perspective it would be completely profitable as a society to be suspicious and aggressive towards people or things dissimiliar from ourselves.  But we know better now so it's no excuse.   Here's a better question to ruminate on:  Are works of Art Ideas? Often when I see people very depressed this inspires me.  As artists we have a different role, part of playing that role successfully requires us to act in a less than conventional way. For the first time I'm feeling the need to have lines of communication open, I'm not used to having things I< actually need to care about. I wasn't able to actually submit work for the show.  I hope they didn't type my name on anything important yet.  I had been painting the week of the deadline but I still hadn't come up with anything I was interested in showing.  Since then I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere with my painting.  It's a long and involved process making art and it's no easy task just to get things to start "living". It's been a truly profound read, life changing stuff. I have so many things to address yet and hardly as much time as I would prefer to thoughtfully and fully write this email.  I doubt we'll be able to set up any sort of meeting this time.  Have a good time diving back into school work and I'll let you know when I get a cell phone back. Oh yeah happy new year.  I think 2012 is going to be an interesting year.  I wish i had more time to recollect all things I want to discuss with you but I suppose it'll have to wait. Unbelievable stuff.  Your influences interest me very deeply.  I can't begin to put in words my exploration into the connections between philosophy, religion, and art as of the past couple of weeks. I've been falling further and further into the fact that all activities to humans employ our creative and logical capacities.  Furthermore it is merely an act of acknowledgment that brings the facets and mediums of our creation to the foreground for our usage.  It is funny because like religion one can choose not to believe or acknowledge on the basis of lack of empirical data, this doesn't change the fact that believing (seeing) is proof of the potency of religion.   Creativity has always appeared to me as the amount of elements one has knowledge and control of.  When I begin to think about the extent that which materials and concepts can be used, I'm overwhelmed. I look forward to when we can actually get together and discuss things.  You are my most valued colleague, keep up the good work and thank you for sharing all this with me. I just had an interesting thought which reminded me of some of your interesting work.  I was thinking about that "cellular" (as in cell based).  I don't know if you remembered but i once mentioned the concept of humanity suffering a collective trauma.  If humanity can suffer a "collective trauma", what else could it experience collectively.  Then, drop collectively, what happens if we see humanity as an autonomous being?  Then because I'm an artist I asked what would that organism look like what characteristics would it have?  Humor this if you have the time. I was just talking to Vishal today about emergence (does this constitute the emergence of emergence?).  Playing with geometry really demonstrates the power of forms.  When I say "playing"  what I mean is that I'll take a shape and just see how many more shapes I can make out of it, as well as how many different shapes I can divide it into.  For me this speaks volumes about reality, aesthetics, spirituality and higher consciousness.  To look at a shape and understand that within is the potential for infinite expansion, well changes the way I look at a shape.  Vishal told me about Buddhist "Mandala" drawings which contain this property and employ it very effectively, you should check them out if you're not familiar with them. Your vision of the collective human entity, a being of consumption and expansion seems in tune with my own ideas. The human mind is the only thing that turns software (stimuli) into hardware (neuro networks and physiological changes). Maybe I'm being an optimist but, in line with my thoughts on geometry, I've been thinking a great deal about the "constructive force", and seeing art, music, and aesthetics in general as being indicative a constructive force. I don't want to keep you too long.  I'm sure you're up to some fantastic work so keep it up.  Thanks for taking the time to chat with me.  By the way I got a new cell phone/number, feel free to call/text me anytime.  No thought is ever finished, that's why I like to stick near the good ones.  I thought a bit about the idea of damaging ideas myself.  Certainly we could make the skeptical argument that people are damaging not the ideas themselves.  This is asinine because ideas are an exclusive human property anyhow.  They are part of our interface.  It seems that the ideas that are inhibitory or exclusive are the ones we liberal folk like to call damaging or detrimental and the irony is that from an evolutionary perspective it would be completely profitable as a society to be suspicious and aggressive towards people or things dissimiliar from ourselves.  But we know better now so it's no excuse.   Here's a better question to ruminate on:  Are works of Art Ideas? Often when I see people very depressed this inspires me.  As artists we have a different role, part of playing that role successfully requires us to act in a less than conventional way. For the first time I'm feeling the need to have lines of communication open, I'm not used to having things I< actually need to care about. I wasn't able to actually submit work for the show.  I hope they didn't type my name on anything important yet.  I had been painting the week of the deadline but I still hadn't come up with anything I was interested in showing.  Since then I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere with my painting.  It's a long and involved process making art and it's no easy task just to get things to start "living". It's been a truly profound read, life changing stuff. I have so many things to address yet and hardly as much time as I would prefer to thoughtfully and fully write this email.  I doubt we'll be able to set up any sort of meeting this time.  Have a good time diving back into school work and I'll let you know when I get a cell phone back. Oh yeah happy new year.  I think 2012 is going to be an interesting year.  I wish i had more time to recollect all things I want to discuss with you but I suppose it'll have to wait. Unbelievable stuff.  Your influences interest me very deeply.  I can't begin to put in words my exploration into the connections between philosophy, religion, and art as of the past couple of weeks. I've been falling further and further into the fact that all activities to humans employ our creative and logical capacities.  Furthermore it is merely an act of acknowledgment that brings the facets and mediums of our creation to the foreground for our usage.  It is funny because like religion one can choose not to believe or acknowledge on the basis of lack of empirical data, this doesn't change the fact that believing (seeing) is proof of the potency of religion.   Creativity has always appeared to me as the amount of elements one has knowledge and control of.  When I begin to think about the extent that which materials and concepts can be used, I'm overwhelmed. I look forward to when we can actually get together and discuss things.  You are my most valued colleague, keep up the good work and thank you for sharing all this with me. I just had an interesting thought which reminded me of some of your interesting work.  I was thinking about that "cellular" (as in cell based).  I don't know if you remembered but i once mentioned the concept of humanity suffering a collective trauma.  If humanity can suffer a "collective trauma", what else could it experience collectively.  Then, drop collectively, what happens if we see humanity as an autonomous being?  Then because I'm an artist I asked what would that organism look like what characteristics would it have?  Humor this if you have the time. I was just talking to Vishal today about emergence (does this constitute the emergence of emergence?).  Playing with geometry really demonstrates the power of forms.  When I say "playing"  what I mean is that I'll take a shape and just see how many more shapes I can make out of it, as well as how many different shapes I can divide it into.  For me this speaks volumes about reality, aesthetics, spirituality and higher consciousness.  To look at a shape and understand that within is the potential for infinite expansion, well changes the way I look at a shape.  Vishal told me about Buddhist "Mandala" drawings which contain this property and employ it very effectively, you should check them out if you're not familiar with them. Your vision of the collective human entity, a being of consumption and expansion seems in tune with my own ideas. The human mind is the only thing that turns software (stimuli) into hardware (neuro networks and physiological changes). Maybe I'm being an optimist but, in line with my thoughts on geometry, I've been thinking a great deal about the "constructive force", and seeing art, music, and aesthetics in general as being indicative a constructive force. I don't want to keep you too long.  I'm sure you're up to some fantastic work so keep it up.  Thanks for taking the time to chat with me.  By the way I got a new cell phone/number, feel free to call/text me anytime.  No thought is ever finished, that's why I like to stick near the good ones.  I thought a bit about the idea of damaging ideas myself.  Certainly we could make the skeptical argument that people are damaging not the ideas themselves.  This is asinine because ideas are an exclusive human property anyhow.  They are part of our interface.  It seems that the ideas that are inhibitory or exclusive are the ones we liberal folk like to call damaging or detrimental and the irony is that from an evolutionary perspective it would be completely profitable as a society to be suspicious and aggressive towards people or things dissimiliar from ourselves.  But we know better now so it's no excuse.   Here's a better question to ruminate on:  Are works of Art Ideas? Often when I see people very depressed this inspires me.  As artists we have a different role, part of playing that role successfully requires us to act in a less than conventional way. For the first time I'm feeling the need to have lines of communication open, I'm not used to having things I< actually need to care about. I wasn't able to actually submit work for the show.  I hope they didn't type my name on anything important yet.  I had been painting the week of the deadline but I still hadn't come up with anything I was interested in showing.  Since then I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere with my painting.  It's a long and involved process making art and it's no easy task just to get things to start "living". It's been a truly profound read, life changing stuff. I have so many things to address yet and hardly as much time as I would prefer to thoughtfully and fully write this email.  I doubt we'll be able to set up any sort of meeting this time.  Have a good time diving back into school work and I'll let you know when I get a cell phone back. Oh yeah happy new year.  I think 2012 is going to be an interesting year.  I wish i had more time to recollect all things I want to discuss with you but I suppose it'll have to wait. Unbelievable stuff.  Your influences interest me very deeply.  I can't begin to put in words my exploration into the connections between philosophy, religion, and art as of the past couple of weeks. I've been falling further and further into the fact that all activities to humans employ our creative and logical capacities.  Furthermore it is merely an act of acknowledgment that brings the facets and mediums of our creation to the foreground for our usage.  It is funny because like religion one can choose not to believe or acknowledge on the basis of lack of empirical data, this doesn't change the fact that believing (seeing) is proof of the potency of religion.   Creativity has always appeared to me as the amount of elements one has knowledge and control of.  When I begin to think about the extent that which materials and concepts can be used, I'm overwhelmed. I look forward to when we can actually get together and discuss things.  You are my most valued colleague, keep up the good work and thank you for sharing all this with me. I just had an interesting thought which reminded me of some of your interesting work.  I was thinking about that "cellular" (as in cell based).  I don't know if you remembered but i once mentioned the concept of humanity suffering a collective trauma.  If humanity can suffer a "collective trauma", what else could it experience collectively.  Then, drop collectively, what happens if we see humanity as an autonomous being?  Then because I'm an artist I asked what would that organism look like what characteristics would it have?  Humor this if you have the time. I was just talking to Vishal today about emergence (does this constitute the emergence of emergence?).  Playing with geometry really demonstrates the power of forms.  When I say "playing"  what I mean is that I'll take a shape and just see how many more shapes I can make out of it, as well as how many different shapes I can divide it into.  For me this speaks volumes about reality, aesthetics, spirituality and higher consciousness.  To look at a shape and understand that within is the potential for infinite expansion, well changes the way I look at a shape.  Vishal told me about Buddhist "Mandala" drawings which contain this property and employ it very effectively, you should check them out if you're not familiar with them. Your vision of the collective human entity, a being of consumption and expansion seems in tune with my own ideas. The human mind is the only thing that turns software (stimuli) into hardware (neuro networks and physiological changes). Maybe I'm being an optimist but, in line with my thoughts on geometry, I've been thinking a great deal about the "constructive force", and seeing art, music, and aesthetics in general as being indicative a constructive force. I don't want to keep you too long.  I'm sure you're up to some fantastic work so keep it up.  Thanks for taking the time to chat with me.  By the way I got a new cell phone/number, feel free to call/text me anytime.  No thought is ever finished, that's why I like to stick near the good ones.  I thought a bit about the idea of damaging ideas myself.  Certainly we could make the skeptical argument that people are damaging not the ideas themselves.  This is asinine because ideas are an exclusive human property anyhow.  They are part of our interface.  It seems that the ideas that are inhibitory or exclusive are the ones we liberal folk like to call damaging or detrimental and the irony is that from an evolutionary perspective it would be completely profitable as a society to be suspicious and aggressive towards people or things dissimiliar from ourselves.  But we know better now so it's no excuse.   Here's a better question to ruminate on:  Are works of Art Ideas? Often when I see people very depressed this inspires me.  As artists we have a different role, part of playing that role successfully requires us to act in a less than conventional way. For the first time I'm feeling the need to have lines of communication open, I'm not used to having things I< actually need to care about. I wasn't able to actually submit work for the show.  I hope they didn't type my name on anything important yet.  I had been painting the week of the deadline but I still hadn't come up with anything I was interested in showing.  Since then I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere with my painting.  It's a long and involved process making art and it's no easy task just to get things to start "living". It's been a truly profound read, life changing stuff. I have so many things to address yet and hardly as much time as I would prefer to thoughtfully and fully write this email.  I doubt we'll be able to set up any sort of meeting this time.  Have a good time diving back into school work and I'll let you know when I get a cell phone back. Oh yeah happy new year.  I think 2012 is going to be an interesting year.  I wish i had more time to recollect all things I want to discuss with you but I suppose it'll have to wait. Unbelievable stuff.  Your influences interest me very deeply.  I can't begin to put in words my exploration into the connections between philosophy, religion, and art as of the past couple of weeks. I've been falling further and further into the fact that all activities to humans employ our creative and logical capacities.  Furthermore it is merely an act of acknowledgment that brings the facets and mediums of our creation to the foreground for our usage.  It is funny because like religion one can choose not to believe or acknowledge on the basis of lack of empirical data, this doesn't change the fact that believing (seeing) is proof of the potency of religion.   Creativity has always appeared to me as the amount of elements one has knowledge and control of.  When I begin to think about the extent that which materials and concepts can be used, I'm overwhelmed. I look forward to when we can actually get together and discuss things.  You are my most valued colleague, keep up the good work and thank you for sharing all this with me. I just had an interesting thought which reminded me of some of your interesting work.  I was thinking about that "cellular" (as in cell based).  I don't know if you remembered but i once mentioned the concept of humanity suffering a collective trauma.  If humanity can suffer a "collective trauma", what else could it experience collectively.  Then, drop collectively, what happens if we see humanity as an autonomous being?  Then because I'm an artist I asked what would that organism look like what characteristics would it have?  Humor this if you have the time. I was just talking to Vishal today about emergence (does this constitute the emergence of emergence?).  Playing with geometry really demonstrates the power of forms.  When I say "playing"  what I mean is that I'll take a shape and just see how many more shapes I can make out of it, as well as how many different shapes I can divide it into.  For me this speaks volumes about reality, aesthetics, spirituality and higher consciousness.  To look at a shape and understand that within is the potential for infinite expansion, well changes the way I look at a shape.  Vishal told me about Buddhist "Mandala" drawings which contain this property and employ it very effectively, you should check them out if you're not familiar with them. Your vision of the collective human entity, a being of consumption and expansion seems in tune with my own ideas. The human mind is the only thing that turns software (stimuli) into hardware (neuro networks and physiological changes). Maybe I'm being an optimist but, in line with my thoughts on geometry, I've been thinking a great deal about the "constructive force", and seeing art, music, and aesthetics in general as being indicative a constructive force. I don't want to keep you too long.  I'm sure you're up to some fantastic work so keep it up.  Thanks for taking the time to chat with me.  By the way I got a new cell phone/number, feel free to call/text me anytime.  No thought is ever finished, that's why I like to stick near the good ones.  I thought a bit about the idea of damaging ideas myself.  Certainly we could make the skeptical argument that people are damaging not the ideas themselves.  This is asinine because ideas are an exclusive human property anyhow.  They are part of our interface.  It seems that the ideas that are inhibitory or exclusive are the ones we liberal folk like to call damaging or detrimental and the irony is that from an evolutionary perspective it would be completely profitable as a society to be suspicious and aggressive towards people or things dissimiliar from ourselves.  But we know better now so it's no excuse.   Here's a better question to ruminate on:  Are works of Art Ideas? Often when I see people very depressed this inspires me.  As artists we have a different role, part of playing that role successfully requires us to act in a less than conventional way. For the first time I'm feeling the need to have lines of communication open, I'm not used to having things I< actually need to care about. I wasn't able to actually submit work for the show.  I hope they didn't type my name on anything important yet.  I had been painting the week of the deadline but I still hadn't come up with anything I was interested in showing.  Since then I finally feel like I'm getting somewhere with my painting.  It's a long and involved process making art and it's no easy task just to get things to start "living". It's been a truly profound read, life changing stuff. I have so many things to address yet and hardly as much time as I would prefer to thoughtfully and fully write this email.  I doubt we'll be able to set up any sort of meeting this time.  Have a good time diving back into school work and I'll let you know when I get a cell phone back. Oh yeah happy new year.  I think 2012 is going to be an interesting year.  I wish i had more time to recollect all things I want to discuss with you but I suppose it'll have to wait. Unbelievable stuff.  Your influences interest me very deeply.  I can't begin to put in words my exploration into the connections between philosophy, religion, and art as of the past couple of weeks. I've been falling further and further into the fact that all activities to humans employ our creative and logical capacities.  Furthermore it is merely an act of acknowledgment that brings the facets and mediums of our creation to the foreground for our usage.  It is funny because like religion one can choose not to believe or acknowledge on the basis of lack of empirical data, this doesn't change the fact that believing (seeing) is proof of the potency of religion.   Creativity has always appeared to me as the amount of elements one has knowledge and control of.  When I begin to think about the extent that which materials and concepts can be used, I'm overwhelmed. I look forward to when we can actually get together and discuss things.  You are my most valued colleague, keep up the good work and thank you for sharing all this with me. I just had an interesting thought which reminded me of some of your interesting work.  I was thinking about that "cellular" (as in cell based).  I don't know if you remembered but i once mentioned the concept of humanity suffering a collective trauma.  If humanity can suffer a "collective trauma", what else could it experience collectively.  Then, drop collectively, what happens if we see humanity as an autonomous being?  Then because I'm an artist I asked what would that organism look like what characteristics would it have?  Humor this if you have the time. I was just talking to Vishal today about emergence (does this constitute the emergence of emergence?).  Playing with geometry really demonstrates the power of forms.  When I say "playing"  what I mean is that I'll take a shape and just see how many more shapes I can make out of it, as well as how many different shapes I can divide it into.  For me this speaks volumes about reality, aesthetics, spirituality and higher consciousness.  To look at a shape and understand that within is the potential for infinite expansion, well changes the way I look at a shape.  Vishal told me about Buddhist "Mandala" drawings which contain this property and employ it very effectively, you should check them out if you're not familiar with them. Your vision of the collective human entity, a being of consumption and expansion seems in tune with my own ideas. The human mind is the only thing that turns software (stimuli) into hardware (neuro networks and physiological changes). Maybe I'm being an optimist but, in line with my thoughts on geometry, I've been thinking a great deal about the "constructive force", and seeing art, music, and aesthetics in general as being indicative a constructive force. I don't want to keep you too long.  I'm sure you're up to some fantastic work so keep it up.  Thanks for taking the time to chat with me.  By the way I got a new cell phone/number, feel free to call/text me anytime.  No thought is ever finished, that's why I like to stick near the good ones.  I thought a bit about the idea of damaging ideas myself.  Certainly we could make the skeptical argument that people are damaging not the ideas themselves.  This is asinine because ideas are an exclusive human property anyhow.  They are part of our interface.  It seems that the ideas that are inhibitory or exclusive are the ones we liberal folk like to call damaging or detrimental and the irony is that from an evolutionary perspective it would be completely profitable as a society to be suspicious and aggressive towards people or things dissimiliar from ourselves.  But we know better now so it's no excuse.   Here's a better question to ruminate on:  Are works of Art Ideas? Often when I see people very depressed this inspires me.  As artists we have a different role, part of playing that role successfully requires us to act in a less than conventional way.