MayBe Art is PATTERNS
Mark Jacobson
Barn Lights 2010
Photograph
www.markdjacobsonphotography.com
Alison Doane
Curator of Astronomical Photographs at the
Harvard College Glass Plate Observatory
www.cfa.harvard.edu/hco/plates.html
Harvard Glass Plate Observatory Star Tracings 1880’s
http://dasch.rc.fas.harvard.
“Ultimately I believe human understanding is a class of brain patterns—but I suspect that this description is only of minimal utility or is that how maybe you would define human creation as new patterns and compositions.” Brian Greene
www.superstringtheory.com/people/bgreene.html
Art is both processes and motion and parts within them. Art patterns are linked to the understanding of metabolic, developmental and universal processes. Understanding these facts arises from understanding the patterns and processes by which nature sustains life. From the unique patterns of culture to Nature’s cycles; art is a process-view of the cosmos. Art as a living system are understood by the abstractions of patterns in the world around us: numerical patterns, patterns of shape, patterns of motion, patterns of reasoning and meaning. The continual complexity of life is organized into patterns which repeat themselves—theme and variations—at each level of system. Art models these patterns in interdependent networks of relationships forming cultures. Culture forms patterns as unique changes in natural systems that cycle in evolutionary time.