It's art, Jim, but not as we know it.

It was a very strange sense of confusion followed by aspiration that came over me in the last few days.

I think I have mentioned the wish to "get in touch" with my artistic side - assuming, that is, that I have one!  It is at least moving forward (at a snail's lack-of-pace) in the languages area (where in the last 2 days, I've learned to read and write 15 words in my mother-tongue - in which I am currently illiterate). 

The blog, I guess, is a part of that wish.  Hence the idea of labelling my own writings on here - at some point (soon).

The area of art, photography and general creativity has been at a standstill for some time.  It was negatively impacted recently when I saw this cartoon.  I thought - is that me?  Then I read this article in the National describing the art of those true souls who are in it "where it's simply about personal creativity and expression."  No aim for gain, no aim for fame.  Not even an expectation of appreciation.

I have been too engrossed in the geeky (trekky? Hence the title) things recently - like spreadsheets, equations and numbers.  In the common but incorrect parlance, very left-brained.  But the hope is still there to get away from the (I won't call it mundane, rather ongoing) grind of left-brained mediocrity at the workplace and use some of this free (yet priceless) time.

The article gave an insight into the motives of artists and also reminded me of something of the "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance" - the essence of quality.  If you haven't read "ZATAOMM" - do!  I guess that is what I am aiming for.  A whole-brained scientific/artistic ideal with most importantly a High Quality result.

Speaking of which, there is the link back to Islam.  The combination of art and science (at least mathematics) at the heart of a lot of the early Islamic art and architecture.  I was very fortunate to receive a gift about geometric patterns from Islam by Eric Broug.  This will be an area which I explore...