Thanks for posting that Evo

Evo - that is a very articulate and eye-opening perspective on your craft. I now understand why they intend to burn you at the stake like all good pioneers in thought. I think that I grasp a bit of the motive. This thought of yours resonated, in particular "a primary concern with artistic expression will involve every aspect of your picture, and thereby override and subsume design for its own sake". As I read through your argument, it made me think about the universe, and despite the chaos of its creation and the forces that constantly expand it or send parts into crushing eternal darkness; the symmetry, structure and beauty that naturally flows within it, completely beyond our feeble abilities to influence and control. It is sheer arrogance for us to think that we can prescribe a more proper frame of reference. As I said in your outdoor thread: "Nature has spoken".

Thank you for sharing your brilliance with us.

If my spelling and grammar structure is a little off more than normal I apologize. My blood sugar level was just 66. That is why I have not went off on any walk-a-bouts by myself since i got out of the hospital. I just don't trust myself when it does this.

All this from the dehydration? Be careful Sumo. Good thing you are checking yourself. Reminds me, I should get my blood work done.

That's my take.

To which a few a have been enthusiastically receptive, and most of the rest have been hostilely antagonistic. BUT most of those who have been hostilely antagonistic have said that they don't think my pictures break the rules, and said that they still see how they can apply the rules to my pictures. To which I've told them, as politely as I could, that they seem to have missed my points.

So, now I'm about to try to explain to them a different way.