Rendering of ideas into functional concrete was attempted. Expedient
utility without marketability affords a maverick some freedom of anonymity. For lack of popular demand one could tentatively inquire the way instead of building ego. With more quiet time, studies and meditation could prevail.
Physical energy was worked up from an emotional drive. Lower emotions have historically driven physical events for better or worse and creative outlets can aim for the better. Higher emotions can gently help life and impersonality works this best, but that was learned only much later.
Admittedly the finish work and polish was never attempted as the raw work dragged on, part time. (Mostly single handed with rare help borrowed from sparse income derived mostly from outside contracting of various kinds of customized services for others.
The video construction-notes aim to show the long term physical outworking of a loving inspiration, regardless that it was not for glory or glut. Concepts were tested and time tells all. Rural regulation permitted it.
After rainproofing was completed, the builder-incentives ceased to stir up the emotional drive and that work stopped. Other duties and concepts took over.
Besides the odd jobs to support this “structural-research” some inner peace had to be found too. Time was devoted towards life-explanatory philosophies, spiritualities, sciences and arts ever since since youth.
In this case art was integrated with hands-on engineering. Rather than random forms, or conventional ones, a heart-based spirituality prioritized harmony from inexperience to search for an eclectic amalgamation. This was a seeker's long aspiration.
" Imagine ~ Design ~ Build"
1990s Photo edited Promotion
Could efforts somehow
assist evolution?
Healthy imagination could provide some attraction,
design would employ
sciences & engineering,
and building is really lifting and moving of parts
properly fitted into a final resting position.
Exploratory geometry taught perspective of structure. Long hours of exploratory 3d computer modeling could relax the physical stress and utilize winter hibernation.
Visualizations inspired by nature and life were occasionally, (crudely) published for serendipity. This earnest goal met with vast learning curves, struggling along with ego-remediation, and a maverick’s lack of tact and the paradox of all this in a dominant business world.
multiple-hedron-tetrahedrons
144edgehedronOcta
240 vertex-attached -hedron
600hedron Edge Attached Icosahedron
600hedron Edge Attached Dodecahedrons
Outlines of precisely formed polygons had long motivated attempts at winding coils about their symmetries to test and observe the electromagnetic and patterned resonation effects. To see what would happen.
Visualization and actualization took many forms and electromagnetism was a foundational panorama for exploration.
The isotropic coil, as an animated image intended to adequately define a tetrahedral polarity coiled up, and to objectively trace its precisely intersecting magnetic fields. Bucky Fuller invented geodesic framing as efficient, structural polyhedra. Coiled polyhedra as electromagnetic frameworks had seemed like natural and adventurous experiments.
Physical experiments of this kind burned out the author's limited test equipment and would require other resources or other experimenters to improve on the implications illustrated here. Egotism has increasingly been cast off by openly sharing my ideas, to the extent budgeting allowed, beginning in 1980, and before yearr 2000 on the www.
Experiments with electromagnetic coils are shared as much as can be restored from earlier.
Reposting of this older, graphical, landing page attempted to show how an individualistic life stumbled around for directions, sometimes with a joyful sense of humor, and sometimes overly-indulged, but more importantly how enough sensibility could in fact maintain health and uprightness, through decades.
Isolated lifestyle allowed exploration of harmonious integrality, while sorting out practicalities. In a much later retrospect, the writer's small earnings happily avoided much of the "bad sowing" of society's "default egotism”, and where the bad reaping of society is exacerbated by harmful resource-disposability of short-lived obsolescence, and disharmonies with nature.
Profiteering glut harms ecological harmony. Mass illusions and fictions block consciousness development, and a reprioritization of developments could graduate mankind out its infantile, consensual trance of enslavement.
A difficult and disciplined adventure is rarely popular, but how else is harmless success obtained at the end of a roiling age? Efforts of plain inspiration sought for available ways.
The decades of earlier promotional efforts to sell sculptural ideas had averaged little over a minimum wage. These occupations lost income from sales for lack of startup investments or entrainment connections.
Modeling and graphical promotions could at least make webpages when the public internet began inventing itself in the 1990s. A glorified physicality wasn’t achieved, but rather just a determined, searching vision.
A Seeker’s Aspiration
Some reflective ideas gleaned from repeated readings, and often repeated readings through the books of Pythagorean hylozoics, began only after five decades of searching blindly for knowledgable explanations of life. Hand building a rural life on a low income was found, and rural relaxation worked best, as compared with prior city living experiences.
Finally came a helpful and relieving perspective on mankind’s hangup as an interpretation of a hylozoic word modification:
Almost all of the content here politely dissociates itself from scholasticism and institutionalism in general. Higher, gentler, better knowledge than sagacity is promised by hylozoics. Can this be freely contemplated?
Bo Atkinson 2025-26
