Approach symmetry with proper gravity
This one resembles a single celled organism, with a uniform outer wall and an interior that seems random even though it isn’t. We tend to think of mathematically ‘perfect’ structures, like the cycloids in a spirograph, or the forms in the mandelbrot set, or snowflakes, as reflecting something pure, a higher ideal or standard of beauty than the messiness we see in an eroded hillside, or in the seemingly haphazard way organs are distributed within the torso. It takes less information to mathematically describe the former than the latter, which made me wonder whether or not that means perfect circles exhibit a higher level of entropy than imperfect ones. Turns out I was wrong about that, at least for relatively static systems not directly undergoing transformation. The simpler the math, the lower the entropy necessary to phenomenologically realize the thing being described by the math. So even though the math is simple, aligning a series of individual atoms into a perfect circle, and then sustaining that configuration, is a very high-energy very low-entropy proposition. Why do I know this? Because painting raised the question in a way that compelled me to do some reading. When I say that I learn from my practice, I mean it literally.