Using a single 16 inch wafer plate, or alternatively, an unnumbered trial print from the "MMS" series, I have developed a set of monotypes. They are not numbered as each piece is hand colored with markers in a unique motif. To date, there are more than 30 of these pieces.

The name of the series comes from a book by Kevin Kelly, a California journalist perhaps best known for his editing in "Wired" magazine and a former "Whole Earth Catalog" editor. Kevin has also spent several years in Asia (as I have), where he told me, he started out with documetary photographs of his travels, but the descriptions got longer and longer. His book, "Out of Control" had an immense impact on the way that I think of technology and change.

The book is about developing computers that will be proud of us rather than the other way around. In summary, we should not restrain ourselves to building computers in our own image, but rather build them so that they can go beyond our capabilities; the only way to achieve this is to stop building them on known mathematical models and design them to behave like swarming bees or flocks of birds - with their own inherent instincts and intelligence. Doing so requires teaching a different level of math to school children so that they can think in greater and greater dimensions without boundaries.

In the artwork, I have captured the grids of the computerized models together with the free form templates (representing basic life). In each piece, the life seems to be outrunning the grid, spilling out of its box and into an orbit of its own choosing. The freedom to break out of the examined box, as life does, has great appeal for me - as I think problems are solved that way.