An Illusion of Lfe in Two Dimensions

Although I am not suggesting quilters invented AL (artificial life) or that AL inspires quilters, some combination of their grid performances can produce art and inspire other artists. Grid performances have rules which govern the actions, but something greater than the sum of the parts is produced in the patterns, whether it is virtual AL or material AL. In any case, you don’t have to be interested in video games to enjoy playing with the versions of John Horton Conway’s Game of Life. I suggest you give it a try before you go to a quilt show, it’ll change the way you see things. Who knows you might take up codmology instead of just fishing for life's persisent questions.


Cosmic Rhythms Quilt Show

Scissors, thread, material woven into a community worship homily,

Regaled like strange attractors in a chaotic universe of craft and color

A sensory overload of line and moving geometric clarity focuses

Life pattern emergence. Hovering in the twisted exhibition space,

Human eyes reduced to observing points float like planetesimals,

Pushed and pulled by subtle forces charged by emotion and memory,

Distances lose meaning, unknown dimensions fondle the consciousness

Like dream interpretations, the hazy messages capture the lucid mind,

And an assembled reality integrates pieced time into quilted harmony.



When I stretched the space it took on a different look. It alters the way you see the meaning of patterns,

Cosmic Rhythms Quilt Show



Scissors, thread, material
Woven into a community
Worship homily,
Regaled
Like strange attractors in a chaotic
Universe of craft and color
A sensory overload of line
And moving geometric clarity
Focuses life pattern emergence.
Hovering in the twisted
Exhibition space,
Human eyes,
Reduced to observing points,
Float like planetesimals
Pushed and pulled by subtle forces
Charged by emotion and memory.
Distances lose meaning,
Unknown dimensions
Fondle the consciousness.
Like dream interpretations,
The hazy messages
Capture the lucid mind,
And an assembled reality
Integrates pieced time
Into quilted harmony.

Which might raise the question, how many ways does 9 go into 25? Mathematical precision does not always give the only integer.