Aura: a luminous quality or disturbance that surrounds a living thing, place, or object, and that appears to emanate from it. An unseen quality that moves the spirit of another.

I ponder on the nature of aura using sounds, words, and light. I do not think of what it is to radiate, but rather what it is to experience the aura of someone or something else.

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Function: something that happens aligned with the purpose of a thing.

I enjoy good design, a union of practical function and beauty.

Art and music are mercurial in their functions, and characterized by their relationships with beauty.

Art and music have emotional, conceptual, and expressive functions not bound by the need to work as practical aids or tools other than of and for the mind and heart.

When making I am drawn to three qualities: simplicity, elegance, and grace. I judge these through a combination of intuition and reason.

There is a point when something becomes so simple, its elegance evaporates. Elegance offers more than meets the eye. Something elegant is coherent, lucid, inventive, surprising, pleasing.

Simplicity and elegance may be static. Grace relates to movement, an expression of something alive.