7. 'You cannot collect all the Data'

One doesn't have to think very deeply to realise the truth of this and then the question arises...
We therefore always operate with partial knowledge, how we handle this is how we live.

6. 'Screensaver thought'

A painting can be a complex, highly personal, customized ideogram, complex in the way a cinematic or televisual image may be but uniquely characterized in permanence and stasis. This is my current 'screensaver' thought. A 'screensaver' thought is that state of affairs that one is left holding while having to do other things...the thing to which you must return before resuming.

5. 'Encryption for Thriving'

Supposing a person is a memeplex - Life is such a lottery - could we manage our own programming...

4. A propos...

One of my indulgences has been a small collection of British studio pottery...here is a piece by Peter Moss - it is just a phone pic and deserves better...I'll do something about that.

I love the sketchy scratched lines ...I think they convey something about the nervous energy of our times and the form has something of a classic column about it as a foil.

3. Why do I think pictures are important to me?

I am highly susceptible to visual stimuli and navigate in life largely on visual cues. The importance of this is...
1. I respond without checking other channels for interrogative feedback...High risk of behavioural error (e.g. wrong purchase!) except where response is mandatory (e.g. road signs).
2. I have lowered response to other channels...Tends to reduce social interaction and response thus limiting variety and increasing risk of 'failure' to communicate and develop sufficient survival techniques.
So...this skill I have to draw and project and to compress data and 'read' compressed data also carries huge risks (that have taken many years to comprehend) and now at last I can feel 'happy in my skin'!

2. What does image making do for me?

Images can cope with speed of thought, complex conceptual mixing and projection of 'virtual' states of a concept. They are minimally consequential in their effects on resource and time when development and experiment are a high proportion of the activity. Images can also be 'aside' from daily experience to the extent that we can take time to assimilate and assign their role in our lives both subliminally and intentionally. Visual imagery is a powerful shorthand but also contains many risks.

1. Diving In

Nearly two years have passed since, weighing the prospect of two more years of work against managing my own time and money, I took my pension early even though all the usual financial caveats were evident.
So now in a new home 2 years on, much as planned and required, I can pursue my own thoughts and dreams at will...

to be continued...