The first image, I generated pseudo-random noise and put it on a black background. Then I used the “magic wand” tool to try to find a large section with gaps inbetween the noise bits and I deleted it.
This is what’s left over. I added words behind it.
I then took that image and did an “edge detection” on it.
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Hm. Purpose? Purpose. Hm. I guess purpose is chasing butterflies and seeing what flowers they lead me to. I’m studying both logic and also the nature of randomness and pattern-finding. Ultimately I’m curious how/why humans do it but it’s easier to work with paint programs than to ask a bunch of people “How do you see patterns in chaos?”
Sensemaking. I guess that’s what it is. Im studying sensemaking.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory
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A long long time ago, I read a paper by Claude Shannon about “Information Entropy”. One fascinating fact I learned is *why* we can understand someone else talking over a bad connection (noisy). I’m 1/2 deaf (more than) so understanding people when they talk is always an effort, but I do it in such a way that people don’t know I have trouble hearing / understanding.
So the reason we can understand each other over poor communication lines is because of redundancy. Language has a lot of redundancy.
The redunancy in language forms the patterns that we can understand even in noisy environments.
In other words, the world’s not perfect. The world is messy and unclear. Yet somewhere within the messy and unclearness, we can somehow make sense of things sometimes.
This is amazing when you stop to think about it. Why *should* anything make sense at all? But it can.
So, Im using myself as test subject and also sharing with others.
In the case of the above image I noticed when I got rid of 70% of the noise, patterns suddenly started to show up.
It looks like there are clumps of stars on top.
Where did those clumps of stars come from?
Out of the randomness.
I just realized I made things even more muddled I think 
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But yeah, ultimately? It’s art. The purpose is “unfinished”. It’s something I’m pondering but it’s only a piece in a larger puzzle. So as a “piece for me to ponder” – that makes it art I guess
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