Judgment and Decision Making

ON THE COVER

In Overgrown the elk as ruminant encourages the viewer to ruminate across and on the image. As we traverse the branching nexus of antlers, entirely new and magical worlds open up. The experience is that of excited electrons surging through perpetually bifurcating pathways, forks in roadways that will never intersect, though trails extend toward each other. Endless rhizomatic possibility is promised. Yes, these are the branching decision trees, the individual trains of thought and the social networks that combine or proliferate to become the collective experience. The image conveys both the implications and consequences of individual decisions, if considering the elk head as undivided consciousness, and the tethering of myriad positions ...