COLLECTION AND DISSOLUTION Wholeness, the creative process, and the limitations of text

Abstract

An exposition and contextualization of the author’s art practice framed by an investigation into the insights afforded by quantum physics and the cognitive sciences as applied to the creative process. This is presented expressively and non-linearly in various styles of writing. Ranging from scholarly text to casual diary writing to concrete poetry, comments are presented on the advantages, disadvantages, and limits of the use of text as exposition of artwork and creative processes in general. Importance is also placed on the graphic presentation of such text. It is suggested that different styles of writing display different levels of efficiency for communicating certain types of information. It follows that some styles of writing are simply inappropriate for some messages. The text aims to discuss the context of the art practice rather than the results of it. Discussing the meaning of the present works is irrelevant, hence a true meaning is never disclosed.