The Taos
Discussion
Friday, August 12, 2005
cc: Foundation for Creative Extension and Acquisition
Barry,
Ah, excellent clarity.
I must say, with admiration, that the prints
on paper are exception in quality and in the choice of paper. Please
convey to Jesse my appreciation on the screen captures and for the four/five
new additions to the total collection.
Kelly and I have
been involved in a synthesis of several processes over the past day that is
deeply reaching into the nature of the economic transaction, and the aspects
related to creation and acquisition.
It is nice to have this e-mail from you during this very positive
“conversation” within the deeper flows of information within our society.
The “standard”
economic transaction is often used to disguise a set of “ecological
affordances”. This notion of
“ecological affordance” is from the new science and involves an understanding
of the set of causes that are both knowable easily using standard science and
not easily knowable using rational thought.
Where oil paint pigments come from and how artist’s oils are produced
was part of the discussion this morning. The entire production process is
to be understood if virtualTaos is to capture the supply chain information and
encode this information into a dynamic evolving web ontology (see for complete
description (URL)).
In previous discussions we saw a more global perspective (see [4] )
This morning, and last night, we meet Stephen Salek,
whose company works with the processes to make very nice artist’s
oils. In some abstract sense his work and your work are
related. From the Foundation’s point of both are involved in the
pre-production or production phase. It
is noted that the connection to Mr Salek was not fully established because the
full “virtual Taos system” is not yet in place.
I will update the
“Foundation’s Acquired Archive of Digital Images”.
Paul