Black boxes: knowns are what goes in and out, but what happens on the inside is unknown/unknowable = metaphor for my own practice. Need to start making charts/graphs/organizational layouts like dad's (weird thing in itself). *research info-graphic layouts: does it need to communicate to others or only to myself? A structure for thinking-through thinking through, for processing processes! Various specialized categories: a system for research to collect all the ideas I discover, another system for calendric layouts (to-do lists), in fact one for every aspects of existence. Just start now and figure it out as i go along.

*lesson plan, syllabus

Begin compiling the archive: separate containers for various media.

Visual taxonomy inspiration:

1. Internal emergent structure

2. Scientific/philosophical empiricism

3. Spiritual/transcendental hierarchies

4. Others (related to first? Original structures)

Text content > illustrator diagrams > website taxonomy > max patches

Prologue is still underway: needs to be chart via reverse engineering of experience = apply method towards the music that we created + the human experience through memory.

The problematic: the black box = inside or outside the box?

The impossibility of describing what's inside or what's outside? Is this a tautology that can be broken out of through action? > we inhabit the reality we describe through the language we choose to describe it. Am i suffering according to my own principles? Am i subject to my self or am i actively becoming subject? The other way: slippery fluid play. *OOFKAUU = description of the tension between an empirical and (this other) perspectivalism/perspectivism, an attempt to embody another form of knowledge. Articulating a position which is/is not my own (comes from within or without?) = a fundament which can be upheld or abandoned: the tension between the absolutes, black and white, the existential "reality" of choice/will + the description of the vacuum gray area gradient expanding inbetween. What are the repercussions or advantages of embodying one or the other absolute, or of the potential power/impotence of inhabiting the gray area? Which is "ideal" or more desirable and how is that to be defined, to myself, in relation? *Is this philosophy? What are the questions I am asking: why / how / what if ? = no it's art, not looking for answers just ruminating upon the questions (is this a suitable definition)

TO DO LIST

Find taxonomy inspiration images

Convert into illustrator models

Begin template for website construction

Organize text documents into a meta-taxonomy folder

Organize photo material into reference archive - what software? Turn into collages.

Organize ideas into visual structures for video/audio editing

Go through old hard drives: organize archive and prepare for data backup

Go through notebooks: convert to text? Destroy hard copies

Make list of future correspondences? No = should be more improvised.

Record correspondences? Yes = archive letters/emails + record audio conversations

Research text-to-speech software: transcribing notes + voice memos

Begin list of words = "interesting" "problematic" = increase fidelity of language