From Chaos

Imagery evokes visceral and immediate reactions.  I can read Dante's Inferno and be overcome with the sadness of his loss and the thrill of his journey, but it is a gradual build up of feelings over hundreds of pages.  Similarly, I could have walked through Central Park when The Gates were up, and felt the connection to the earth and gained a deeper understanding of the Park's past, but the sentiment would have developed after hundreds of steps.  An image is all at once.  The greater the detail or the larger the work, the more time is takes to absorb, but the feelings get through the brain much quicker than with any other form of media, because humans are visual creatures.  Ideas that require deep and prompt impact will do better as images.

My project will be on emergence.  The thought that the internet is just one step from the group-mind of ants, or bees, or even cities, intrigues me.  I'd like to explore how the emergence of mindless insects relates to that of countless sentient beings communicating at unprecedented speed.