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Thoughts for Month: I am painting very detailed patterns right now and using them in digital portrait work. It has occurred to me that with infinite resolution, I could create patterns without end (infinite patterns). I realized while reading a book by physicists David Bohm and David Peat, that what I am acctually doing is creating fractals using the technique I have developed starting with geometric grids. The images are becoming more beautiful the larger I can create them - more resolution means more complex patterns, but where will I be satisfied to stop?! When they are the size of buildings? If I made one the size of a football field, an observer would need to spend their entire vacation wandering over it and experiencing the patterns, then find ways to look at it close-up and from the air. How would I print such a work of art? Will it ever be realized? - Terry

Sarah Orne Jewett in a letter to Willa Cather
To work in silence and with all one's heart, that is the writer's lot, he is the only artist who must be solitary, and yet needs the widest outlook upon the world.

Saul Bellow on art
Art attempts to find in the universe, in matter as well as in the facts of life, what is fundamental, enduring, essential.

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