Tag Archives: chaos
Fire, again.
My building caught on fire again last night. This makes the fourth time a building I live in has caught on fire, the second time in this particular building. It was in the second floor apartment, the same one that the … Continue reading
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Trees crash down, and fires ignite.
I am, like one of the characters in my novel, a ‘pattern seeker.’ I look for meaning in patterns, in repetitions and similarities. If I see one thing, and then I see another like it, I try to figure out … Continue reading
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Fractals, art and Jackson Pollock.
Despite having died before chaos and fractals were even discovered, Jackson Pollock apparently made use of them in his work. ‘Rather than mimicking nature, he adopted its language – fractals – to build his own patterns’ is the claim made … Continue reading
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Fractals, chaos, and bed sheets.
Read about fractals enough, and you begin to see them everywhere: in drapery and in gutters, in sand dunes and snow drifts. You see them in the ice frozen on a pond. You see them in the pattern of sunlight … Continue reading
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