Evolution or Revolution?
We can proactively embrace change. We can anticipate and appreciate chaos and its creative power. We can't control what we are responding to, but we can control how we respond.
It is important to stay flexible and assume nothing. Like a surfer meeting a wave we need to stay in the moment and tap the source.
It is important to stay flexible and assume nothing. Like a surfer meeting a wave we need to stay in the moment and tap the source.
Storm Cloud, 2010.
Storm Cloud is a meditation on chaos theory and strange attractors.
Chaos intensifies the more tightly we attempt to control or stop change.
Strange attractors are loose patterns of being that life continually gravitates towards. Our brains and resulting mind operate around strange attractors, seemingly random electrical firings that loop around a loose ever changing pattern of activity. Life thrives on the edge of chaos and the more tightly we try to control the more fragile a system becomes. Dementia is the result of a brain that has become too rigid, too predictably patterned. Schizophrenia is the splitting of our strange attractors, where two loops collide.
Hold Onto Your Tube, 2010.
Hold Onto Your Tube is a cutting of Seed sprouting. Those blobs outside the perimeter of Seed are little inner-tubers waiting to be unleashed into the river of life.
Germinating seeds unleash great chaotic creative potential. As a child my father would take me camping over Highway 2 past the Wenatchee River rapids. He would never fail to exclaim "Hold onto your tube!" Life is this way, creation is this way. We do not have control over the river. We only have control over what we can touch and even then "the tube" is that tentative link between the moment we exist in and our intentions.