Statement

• The goal is “to imitate nature in her manner of operation”. A goal that is both impossible to achieve, and impossible to miss.  Not imposing oneself, not standing in the way - but letting the work develop of its own accord.

• In cultivating awareness, one realizes the value of the inchoate, the bland.

• Observation trumps concept: The world is infinitely more interesting than our opinions about it.

• The experimental method of the natural sciences is a constant inspiration. Narrowing down the number of parameters can serve to amplify what exists between noise and signal.

• At the intersection between the material world and the mental world lies the ultimate conundrum. Anything can be observed by us, except for the point from which the world observes itself.

• Reality is best defined by the twin concepts of ‘dependent arising’ and ‘emptiness’. The objects and notions which together make up our world have no intrinsic existence, since they arise and vanish in mutual dependency. Emptiness on the other hand also fails to constitute ultimate reality, since objects and notions in fact do arise (although always co-dependently).