Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 14:29:52 +1000
From: lpellen-AT-enternet.com.au (Luke Pellen)
Subject: Re: I just like to draw pictures.


Hi Stuart,

>And with respect to the business of machines, it seems in fact on 
>immediately re-reading you post, I find you are saying something more 
>zen-like. A bit like (perhaps) the thing about the painter who spends 
>years just painting bamboo until he never has to look at bamboo 
>again. He paints, and it IS bamboo. The contradiction between the 
>mechanical and the conscious are resolved within him.
>
>Am I right?

Exactly right, yes, I do think of it as a kind of zen-like state.

>It is, at any rate interesting that I now see the other side of your 
>argument, or, if you like, the side that seems other, having 
>expressed my misapprehensions as to your sense of the mechanical, I 
>seemed to have unblocked a perception of what you are saying.

I am most satisfied to have induced a perceptual flip...


Luke.