Sighting of the Empty Ness Monster

During the past couple of days, I have felt that all the stuff I have inside of me which needed to get out had actually even gotten away. Of course this has left me lonely, and wondering what what internal friends I should make next.

While I was in this state, I found a project to occupy myself which involved computer graphics. The project depended on using the graphic tools which I have access to, to communicate information to another person who was to make something from the graphics. The subject matter needed to be transmitted accurately, and the art needed to be changeable enough that the finished work would be a success, even though there was a minimal control over the process. Still waiting for the product to appear, I think the project will be a success.

During the process, I had to acquire some new skills with the tools I use: how to fracture graphics in files to convert the parts to the needed form; how to work around incompatibilities between computers; and how to see the components of the graphic to be able to present them differently in the cases where incompatibilities occur.

This morning, while having my coffee in the presence of an art installation of digital manipulations, it occurred to me how my understanding of the pieces and interactions that compose those pictures was really incomplete. I opened my graphics program to see exactly what one can do with a photo to merge graphics and mold them. I was in a good state of mind, evidently, because some of the structures of the graphics program that I never understood became clear to me, and I can now manipulate images in a more flexible and conscious way.

Happily, there is another something inside of me that I can occupy myself with figuring out how to let go.