Michael GaioThu, Sep 11, 2008 I love these. One of my earliest memories of epiphany is when I was about 8 years old: I was drawing images much like these. I was imagining that I was a diamond cutter, diagraming what angles and delineations I would make to slice a diamond into form. While making these drawings, I had a very clear awareness come over me that—somehow—what I was doing then was exercising an essence of my life purpose. I would not unfold this awareness until my mid-thirties, and make an association to what I am doing now (as a web designer and information architect moving toward semantic technologies): architecting meaningful information spaces with meaningful angles that define conceptual spaces (example). And more, that who I am as a personification of consciousness in matter, is a process of characterization and individuation that is not unlike the process of how diamonds are made and formed (read a poem about it).
I love these. One of my earliest memories of epiphany is when I was about 8 years old: I was drawing images much like these. I was imagining that I was a diamond cutter, diagraming what angles and delineations I would make to slice a diamond into form. While making these drawings, I had a very clear awareness come over me that—somehow—what I was doing then was exercising an essence of my life purpose. I would not unfold this awareness until my mid-thirties, and make an association to what I am doing now (as a web designer and information architect moving toward semantic technologies): architecting meaningful information spaces with meaningful angles that define conceptual spaces (example). And more, that who I am as a personification of consciousness in matter, is a process of characterization and individuation that is not unlike the process of how diamonds are made and formed (read a poem about it).
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