Flores, Memoráveis Momentos na Mente de um Demiurgo?

Abstract

This essay presents a reflection on my poetic practice in Computational Art. Poetry — from the Greek póiesis — involves the act of making something. In this context, I see myself as an agent of experiments that present themselves, but do not necessarily represent something. These present “things,” as they offer themselves to the experience of those who encounter them, love them, and take delight in them, gain existence as things or as the potential to be things, and thereby attain the status of realities.

When observing the surrounding environment, we project onto it our worldview. What we are capable of perceiving are reflections of the world filtered through our perceptual and cognitive systems, forming a filter composed of paradigms through which we perceive and conceive the surrounding environment. Seeking to overcome this limitation and to expand consciousness through exercises of imagination is a human attitude inherent to the field of the arts.

In this visual essay, I present images of some of my works. In them, flowers are the ultimate expression of the reproduction of life in nature. They are like memorable moments in the mind of a demiurge poet, seeking the antinomy between entropy and syntropy, primordial chaos and the order woven by life. For Hermeticism, everything in the Universe manifests in pairs of opposites, being dual in realization. However, for Semiotics, it is triadic in manifestation: an alchemical union that enables life and its becoming. Flowers enchant animals, insects, and us, creating memorable moments that reflect the mind of that demiurge poet who created a sublime process of evolution.