This is an introduction to my new model of art and poetics. The goal of this series of posts is to walk you through my thinking, and to provide you with a powerful way to think about creating and analysing art. This is not as an objective claim about the actual process that happens in the mind, but a simplified description and exploration of the process on a slightly wider level (much like the Bohr model of the atom, say).

My analysis will be released in monthly chapters, the first three focusing on art in general, with later chapters narrowing their focus to poetics.

Chapters

• Art Cycle Ch. 0: An Introduction
• Art Cycle Ch. 1: The Art Cycle - Opening explorations on a theory of art.

Once all chapters are published, you can probably read out of order. Just a quick caveat: there may be the odd phrase or sentence that builds directly on previous chapters.

Chapters 2-5 are by no means an exhaustive list of applications. Once you have read the first chapter, there is nothing to say you cannot make your own applications; my emphasis on poetics is in that sense arbitrary.