method

Simple things lead to profound complexity. In a good way. 

Look at the circle of sky: they are just clouds, but they are unique and unrepeatable. They are just water vapour blown about by the wind, but they are endlessly complex. Each cloud is impossible to simulate, impossible to copy with any accuracy. No two clouds will ever be the same.

Methods of practice that are simple can also generate profound complexity.

What methods do I mean?

Firstly there is writing, scanning, drawing and photographing, each element forming a fragment which we can call a ‘seed’. Simple.

Then there is the collation of the seeds through their publication in no particular order, forming a feed. This is the essence of blogging - also pretty simple.

Finally, after the fact, maybe long after the fact (at some unspecified time in the future) there can be the disassembly and reassembly of the seeds – the rearrangement of the fragments to form new compositions.

This may happen more than once, forming a new composition every time.

The simplicity of each step leads to a pleasingly baroque, fractal complexity: unique and unrepeatable.

Just like a cloud.