“What we cannot know creates the space for myth, for stories, for imagination, as much as for science… Stories are crucial in providing the material for what one day might be known. Without stories, we wouldn’t have any science at all.” Mathematician Marcus du Sautoy
This image is over a year old. I’ve never sat and tried to determine what it is about. The process of allowing ourselves the freedom to go somewhere we’ve never gone, allowing the unknown to just appear is reliant on our ability to tap into our unconscious. As I sit in this room, I now see it is a composite of many layers of my life from the past and perhaps the future, which makes gathering up a “quick meaning” for it far too illusive. The elements in this image have connections, reflections, memories of young experiences, feeling small and feeling powerful. It’s fragmented yet cohesive. It’s a reflection of (organized) chaos as Du Sautoy writes: “There are natural phenomena that will never be tamed and known. Chaos theory asserts that I cannot know the future of certain systems because they are too sensitive to small inaccuracies. Because we can never have complete knowledge of the present, chaos theory denies us access to the future.”
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant—there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing—and keeping the unknown always beyond you…”Georgia O’Keefe
