I have long been thinking about what exactly animals (including ourselves) perceive, and how they/we process that information. The advent of AI has reanimated my interest and a search for some way to incorporate what we are learning into art. What we know for sure is that the process of understanding what we sense consists…
All of these paintings are based on my photographs, so why not leave well enough alone and sell photographs? It is primarily because it doesn’t feel like a photo has enough of me in it. I use the same cameras and lenses as professional bird photographers, and I probably take as many images, many of…
Many years ago, when I was an Assistant Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, I was in a relatively small department which nevertheless had some of the most famous biologists in the world including Viktor Hamburger, a future National Medal of Science winner, and Rita Levy-Montalcini who went on to win a Nobel Prize….
Two wise old owls contemplate us, no doubt thinking about something, perhaps with far greater nuance than we imagine. Can we think of them as intelligent? Their thought processes must certainly be different from our own, but do they reach the same sorts of conclusions? Where did that intelligence come from? In one I imagine…
