11.9.2012 [ Editor's note: Last month was mostly reserved for publishing the 'expansion drawings'. In the midst of all those expansions, another kind of drawing kept sneakily emerging in the flow. I put those cards aside but now it is time to review them. I call this set of work 'encounter drawings' because while they were drawn it felt as if I was interacting with an outside intelligence.

Even as the first figure of this first drawing emerged, I sensed a subtler voice was speaking. What is the message behind this work? This set is way offbeat but I'll do my best to read them. Here goes...]



The reptile alien, the human elf, and the computer on a cushion.

Because I was working on meditation practice a lot at the time, I thought all three figures seemed to be chanting, perhaps the word 'om'? Is this a diagram of the emergence of thought in the brain? Starting with the reptile sensory brain, moving through a human life and ending in an abstract realm? Or perhaps it could be a history of the evolution of consciousness; with awareness itself starting within our reptilian ancestors, moving into our era of homo sapiens, and in the distant future finding itself moving through the world embodied in silicone as spiritual software?
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