We never start at the beginning. We plot our coordinates; sometimes events overlap. We aim for an integrated whole that can be more and more deeply penetrated. The layers peel off like slivers of mica—translucent, uneven.

 

 

Killing me softly with his song...Roberta Flack

Maybe that was it, a soft annihilation. A defeat of resistance and the ego.

 

 

 

...quantum theorist Werner Heisenberg, on his deathbed declared he had two questions for God, why relativity and why turbulence. Heisenberg says, "I really think he may have an answer to the first question."

James Gleick in Chaos

 

lying two amplitudes together to obtain an intensity results in an infinite sum...

C(n,m) = S_k A(n,k) B (k,

In quantum mechanics, A times B does not necessarily equal B times A

S_k p(n,k) q(k,n) - q(n,k) p(k,n) = h / 2pi, h being Planck's constant.

 

One could almost develop a theory of web-specific art based solely on Heisenberg. First, the emphasis on statistical probability and the observer effect translated in the arts into honoring chance/randomness and participatory power. Much less felt was the emphasis Heisenberg placed on turbulence and matrices. The latter could have ignited an interest in infinite depth and geometrization, but it took ideas associated with chaos theory to allow that to happen. The Butterfly effect, recursion and bifurcation were all ideas associated with chaos theory and eventually nonlinear fiction.

Typically changes in the arts depend upon a constellation of ideas from various fields which eventually cannot be denied. They reach critical mass.

Green strip of land behind the stand of pines. Tender green the color of a broccoli stem when you peel away the skin.