Repetitive!

I told you: It will be repetitive, it will be boring, and it will maybe be weird…. my art blogging, that is!

I have opted out of scraping for AI training. Maybe my articles will gradually also fade away in search engines’ indices – when search engines and AI will have become one.

Again, I apologize if you are a reader enticed by one of five articles that constitute all my 15 seconds of internet fame, in obscure technical communities. But I am blogging about my creative process now!

I even turn off e-mail notifications for some blog posts, like this one. This propels me back to the era of hand-crafted websites without any interactive features. It feels good to finally write again to develop my thoughts … about art!

If there is one part of blogging and writing advice that I may follow – accidentally! – then it’s that this blog now has a focus. Without me trying too hard to meet anyone’s expectations.

When I was writing about heat pump systems or cyber security, I felt an impulse to be original. Probably echoing rules of academia or professional circles. But of course, I ran out of original research and ideas – at least compared to typical blogging schedules. I do not rebuild my own home and heating system every two weeks to write a new blog post.

Now I have removed all the shackles of professionalism, and I am embracing my inner dilettante! I am delving(*) into creating with code or with pencils, and I want to document the journey.

(*) No, ChatGPT did not write this. Yes, I know that delve is the hallmark of the chatter’s responses. As that may be true for other words that I happen to like and refuse to drop!

I’ve shared a lot of images in the past 2-3 years, and I often combined them with Found Poetry. I like found poetry, but it was ALSO a way of creating something “original”, maybe in a lame way. The moment I write this, it dawns on me, that I often have not considered my visual art enough – the same as with me adding historical drawings to make my images part of a collage.

There might be some truth to that though, and I mean to say without any humblebragging. I feel, I am still navigating the hyperspace of options I have with art: Digital, with or without code, traditional, with paint or with pencils, collaging, combining it all. I have a vague vision what the goal might be, but I do not force it. This is not a tightly managed project.

What I know so far, and what I am repeating often, is: I want to create art inspired by physics / math / engineering / tech, using different tools. Code is just one of them!

After all – after many years of filling web pages with text, and sometimes with formulas – I am ALSO a text person! I like lettering. I want to see the formulas, not only use them in my code.

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That website here being invisible might not be an entirely bad thing! It is nice to have a supporting community – but it is also beneficial to do your thing without being influenced or nudged.

Many things are inspiring me, and many artworks I see also seem to tell me: That niche is already taken, do something else! Probably I have created Lissajous figures to learn not to care about being totally unoriginal. Not even I had been able to see beautiful interpretations of them all over the internet.

So, the conclusion for now is simply: I will keep exploring! I will also keep coming back to older things (like the inverted diffraction art above) and try to transform them!