q ABOUT THE COVER Making Visible the Creative Process of the Artist Hans Westman Cover Editor Where does the artist go when he or she is submerged in thought? Where does he o r she tap the resources to draw from, t o formulate the imagery? How does the artist share those "visions" to others? The process is a subtle one, a transition over time, reincarnating the history of the past, programming the experience of the present. Consciousness is a maze of circumstance. In the translation, impulses from the artist's brush strokes mimic the randomness of its repetitive pattern. The computer allows the artist to contain his o r her interpretation within space, yet void of space. Immersed in the essence of the abstract, the artist comes into a dialog lost in virtual space, joining past with present, creating movement - and so the dance begins. Intuition leads to logic, or is it logic that leads to intuition? In the computer age, the languages of the artist and the scientist seem to be drifting closer and closer together.The discovering and redefining of truths, the kinds that religion, philosophy and the rituals of civilization are based on, also seem
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