God’s Appointment Book for 5/11/2010
I continue to be fascinated (ok, obsessed) by the problems of God and the world: the idea that there’s a perfect, omnipotent being doing stuff in a world fraught with imperfection. I mean, it’s tough to picture, and endlessly intriguing, to me. Here you are, perfect—plus you wield the unrestricted oomph to pull off all your perfect plans—yet you seem happy to operate in a context that allows for chaos to happen and is chock full of individuals who seem pretty free to honor or ignore what you have in mind.
So, as omnipotent master of my canvas and colors, I explore what it’s like to have a distinct plan, but work it through a chaotic system.
In this group of four paintings, I chose four target colors, with the blue, red, yellow and black ratios based on fibonacci proportion of 2,3,5,8 (another thought stream there, sorry. More later.). Here’s what the targets look like:
So, when it’s time to spatter blue paint, the first grid gets 50% of its squares randomly removed, the second gets 20% removed, the third gets 30% removed, the fourth 20%. Red it’s 20% on the first, 30% on the second, and so on. (Check out “About my Process” in the left column if you’re new.)
Here’s the result of the intersection of my target intention pushed through the sieve of a random system. What does this tell us about how God works his thing?
