Impossible Kisses

This geometric image, a static reflection of an irreversible and fleeting time, brings to mind another one: Kepler’s ellipse. Thom’s eleme...

Each object in the world (as Thom sees it) is associated with a dynamical system. The shape, or form, of this object for an observer is not...

It is essential for catastrophe theory that a small number of external variables be chosen, say three, which will be the only ones to vary, ...

Catastrophe theory was born in 1972, with the publication of a very learned book by René Thom entitled Structural Stability and Morphogenesi...

“ Hi! I’m Alison. I do rebellious magazine collages. They’re rebellious because when I cut up a magazine I’m not only cutting up pop culture...

He shares his apartment with mice and bats. Expeditions of goldfish with sharp spears trek across carpet hunting fur spiders living in the c...

An electric guitar high and falling, rotating, above Chicago’s skyline. Unlike the bone in “A Space Odyssey” the electric guitar doesn’t edi...

Call it 25 A.D. — Tiberius was still in Rome. Pilate was headquartered in Caesarea but spending most of his time in Jerusalem. John was in t...

Last night from outside I watched Alison fog her ceiling. I stood by a street light and watched Alison lean out a window and scoop cupfuls ...

The wide plastic bowl of warmed-up milk starts steaming immediately and just as quickly goose-bumps form on Jill’s arms when she pushes open...

Jill checks a mirror and straightens out her new bra. She starts walking back to the kitchen but hears a noise in the front room. She stops,...

Standing by the bed, Jill looks at her broken bra. A small plastic ring that attached the left cup to the left shoulder strap had cracked an...

Jill turns the gas low. She walks to the front bedroom to get a new bra. Walking, she reaches both hands around behind her to unclip her bra...

Her stocks are tanking, the llama’s constipated and her bra strap broke. Jill wants to cry but she just can’t. Something about Halloween sea...

I believe that the artist and his art are only a part of the total human experience; the viewer in the world at large is the essential other...

Anticipation is another prime element of creative art and essential to visualization. Some years ago I was talking with Edwin Land, a brill...

Once Din [“Din” was Edwin Land’s nickname] and I went to Dr.&nbspHarold Edgerton’s laboratory at Massachusetts Institute of Technology t...

I am interested in why I see certain events in the world about me that others do not see, while they respond to different events. On the da...

One of the most successful Life photographers was Margaret Bourke-White, whom I first met in 1934. She had just moved into her studio on on...

At the Oak Lawn Public Library where I often check out books and DVDs and use the public access computers, if you browse through the stacks ...