15 July 2008

Dedication: for Mike Arzie, with much love.

This was not premeditated.




Exhibit A: Notes/doodles from a more positive phone conference.


We notice in this piece a representative sampling of some of the typical ingredients of a Watsonion phone-doodle from the Software Sales Period. Most notable is the repetitive-generative pattern emerging along bi-symmetrical lines. As the pattern reaches the extremities of its extension, the initial propogation becomes obscurred and the fractal devolves into chaos. One senses the Ego seeking order amidst the blind and inexorable forces to which it is subject.




Exhibit B, "Phone Conference in Which Frustrating Things Happen in Regard to Prospective Client P_______ M________" is an aberrent work in which the mathematical precision of a typical Watsonion is left behind in pursuit of sub-concious emotional primacy. Linear symmetry gives way to a radial-pointillistic style that draws the observer in while punctuating its hypnosis with bursts of angst. One commentator has described the donut-like shapes as "Naked eyes-- stretching to infinitude-- that simultaneously rage against Fate and petition it for mercy."