Casting About

16 June 06

I find myself casting about photos more and more often these days in search of inspiration. It makes me wonder what things inspire and what don’t.
For me inspiration always goes to the visual, if I can’t see it or visualize it, it all gets very shallow for me; not unusual I would think.
A set of words that have to do with the process of inspiration come to mind, perhaps not so usual; add some if you like, comments are open.

Random
Open
Moment
Now

Hmmm… that’s an interesting set for a starter – soon it’ll be ink blots.

Oh, by the way, the pict is a winter shot from last Dec – it has a feel about it!

   — Rick Silletti

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  1. ‘Fibonacci’ is an interesting one to google for. It raises awareness of all kinds of other sequences too. It makes me wonder whether ‘random’ or ‘open’ only appear that way because we haven’t yet discovered the underlying pattern behind everything.


    — Peter    16 06 2006 - 19:53    #

  2. Hi Peter,

    I agree.

    I think it was while reading Helena Blavatsky’s Secret Doctrine that I first came across the phrase, “nature geometrises”, or naturally expresses geometry as an inherent design characteristic of the universe in exists as a part of; the idea appeals to the intuition and your sense of the self evident.

    If one were to assign attributes to divinity, mathematics would suit well as an expression of them. The Fibonacci series would suggest elegance, the unresolvable pi? a sense of humor (I get an old jewish grandfather type saying something like,” Ok, so enough already with Deep Blue – its a circle, its this big” one must visualize the hand gestures and the chuckle in the voice to get the full effect). I guess in my opinion inspiration comes when your listening and watching, and in order to hear a song one must first be quiet, and able to accept spontaneous experience.

    Hmmm…. yep, ink blots :)


    — Rick Silletti    17 06 2006 - 00:24    #

  3. Hi Rick

    I agree too :)

    Whilst trying to portray the breath visually I found that using the fibonacci series came closest. (This one is a fibonacci series) As it is a bit jerky I had a try at a Flash version (which was just as jerky) but could not get my head around the maths. But perhaps a jewish grandfather was having an influence because completely accidentally I produced a very similar effect when I thought I’d try a 2 in a deceleration formula which has no connection at all with fibonacci :)

    Synchronicity (pretentious term for coincidence?) is in evidence for 16 June. ‘Beyond’ is a site with less frequent articles than Frantic Antic but this article has just appeared :)

    Nice photo, btw. Interesting light and shade. Which always reminds of the paintings of Turner, which I saw at the Tate Gallery in London many years ago and were incredible but I think must be seen physically to really appreciate his use of light.


    — Peter    17 06 2006 - 15:20    #
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