Audacity and committment are important attitudes in the process of creating something. Starting with any idea, these attitudes can lead you as the artist to create something that makes a strong impression. Ideas may be small and vague at first. You can build on the idea in any direction; trying to make it "better" is the usual path, but you can just as well create something strong out of your idea by making it "worse." Either path, if taken with your spirit of audacity and committment, leads (infinitely) to something with a strong presence, whether what you create is an angel or a monster. Even if it appears airy and light, its essence is dense with the choices that made it that way. Even if it appears solid, opaque, or even ugly, it was given that life through the same rigorous choice that created lightness and beauty. This approach inevitably creates something "real" which is to say something with some kind of foundation enough to speak for itself and to impress itself -- as immediately as a punch and as undeniably as a bright light in total darkness -- on our consciousness. Curiosity and determination to give life to an idea are the basic fuel for this approach, just as they are the basis for every approach to invention. This approach challenges the artist to notice what's forming and follow through. Audacity and committment can turn something merely weak into something so weak that it's almost invisible, and therefore strong and powerful.

When societies around the world began to incorporate MACHINES, which could produce and reproduce with previously undreamed of speed and accuracy, life became mechanical and people became like parts of the machine. Now, we have reached a time when machines are so familiar and available to us, and so much a part of our "fabric" that they enable us to individualize almost without restraint, constantly, overwhelmingly, and almost -- you can imagine -- back to the point that we're assimilating as machine parts rather than people...???