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Premise of Everything IS: I am offering for discussion a view of the universe as a totality that I believe is missing from current scientific thought. John Archibald Wheeler once stated that he thought a new idea would appear at some point that would be so simple, yet elegant, that everyone reading it would say to themselves, why didn’t I think of that. I believe I have had the beginning glimmers of such an idea. I have painted a book of words and image; color and theory. It is a visual, intellectual and spiritual journey into the infinite connections in our realities, forging bridges between science, art, philosophy, religion, math, history, fashion, evolution and ants. Synopsis My first theory is called the Theory of Universal Totalities (aka Queen TUT): 1) Everything groups and everything ungroups; 2) Everything is made up of groups of other things. These are the only two statements I was able to make that applied to everything from subatomic matter to superclusters of galaxies and possibly clusters of universes; from fashion to religion to evolution. If there is no smallest unit of matter or energy, then the group is everything. This segues to my second theory, Infinite Sentience.: If we remove the naughty science ban against anthropomorphizing and allow sentience to exist on all levels from the subatomic to the cosmic, we begin to see a pattern of grouping and ungrouping based on the decisions of all entities involved. Maybe things happen because infinite numbers of decisions are being made by infinite numbers of sentient entities coming from infinite grouping and size perspectives. Are we the cultural, artistic, political, technical…achievements of our inner cosmos? Are we creating other entities through the groupings involved in our own cultural, artistic, political, technical…achievements? Are we in the paradoxical position of being a God to our inner cosmos and also the product of its (their?) thoughts and values? Is Everything in this paradoxical position? Does the technology of a smaller cosmos become its own god which then creates its own technology which becomes its own god…? We are used to the idea that we are ruling a small planet in a large galaxy in a universe of galaxies. However, we still think our configuration is the center of intelligent life. Out of all the multitude of groupings of matter that we know exist between the subatomic and the cosmic, between the small and the large, our size is the only presumed place where intelligent life could evolve? My book explores these ideas and others.
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Download: FREE Hardcover Print: $54.30 Everything IS questions the basis of our very existence and that of Everything else in this universe and others. In a captivating marriage of paint and ink, word and image, it is a "Theory of Everything" with profound meaning to life as we know it and don't know it.
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Print: $31.91 Download: $2.61 Everything IS questions the basis of our very existence and that of Everything else in this universe and others. In a captivating marriage of paint and ink, word and image, it is a "Theory of Everything" with profound meaning to life as we know it and don't know it.
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Print: $41.15 Download: $6.25 This is an art book, created by artist Sarah Curtiss and including art by William Solis, Jerry Frost and Sarah Curtiss. We are San Francisco people. We are a reflection of life's diversities and similarities. We are not wealthy. We are not young. We are healthy and not so healthy. We want to pay for the living of our lives by creating our art.
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Print: $43.20 Download: $4.11 My first pothead was accidentally born as I was creating the figure of a nude woman out of clay. As I was attaching her head the thought occurred to me: what in the world am I going to do with this? So I lopped off the top of her head, scooped it out and turned her into a salsa bowl. And so the potheads came to be. My potheads are all sketches that will, one day, adorn a dinner table.
The art in this book is composed of photographic images, ink, charcoal and graphite sketches, oil pastels, oil paintings and watercolors. I photograph all of my own work and often color my ink, charcoal and graphite sketches digitally. Many people don’t approve of digitally manipulated artwork; however, some people push paint, some people push clay, some people push light pixels....and some people push pencils! They are all different positions on the perspective horizon, a world unto themselves, surrounded by infinities and interacting with other infinities.
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Print: $14.65 Download: $3.75 This portfolio represents a mixed media technique WILLIAM SOLIS has developed over the past five years, incorporating gold, silver and copper leaf into oils and acrylic on canvas.
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Print: $13.80 Download: $1.40 Checkerboards with a twist...the game is played quite differently when the boards are twisted and all the players are individual. Contact everythingis@pacbell.net for handmade checker teams.
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Print: $23.90 Download: $3.60 This is a simple book. It contains one thought at the beginning and one thought at the end. A thought sandwich, so to speak. The rest is, as the title promises, a book of flowers, with a tree, one bird and one bee.
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Print: $24.10 Download: $3.00 I am so fortunate to live in a city that promotes gardening through community gardens. These beautiful plots of land are tended by city dwellers who keep the concrete jungle from taking over every square inch of our city’s access to Mother Earth. What a marvelous species we are to be able to enjoy planting purely for the joy of looking at the blooms. Though vegetables are well represented, the vast majority of gardeners seem happy just to coax a blossom to open its petals and allow us a look into its very private center.
As is proper in a thought sandwich, there is a thought at the beginning and a thought at the end… the center is a visual journey to the Potrero Hill Community Garden, an extra special spot in our extraordinary city, plus, in the interest of complete honesty, a few images from Crissy Field and my neighbors’ flower boxes on 16th Street.
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Print: $27.76 Download: $4.06 This book is a celebration of the sex organs and improbably wild genitalia of some of our very early relatives on this planet: flowering plants. The spectacular diversity of color, form and scent in our floral neighbors is home, office and grocery store to an enormous number of small creatures. If you were the size of a gnat, which flower would you choose as your home? What would our cities look like if we modeled our office buildings and homes after flowers…giant pink and purple, red and yellow buildings, with parks on the petals and offices running up the stamens? As in my other Thought Sandwiches, there is a thought at the beginning and a thought at the end. The rest is an erotic journey into the very center of the flower.
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Print: $20.19 Download: $2.69 The abstraction of the flower; another one of the infinite thoughts that arise when enjoying flowers.
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Print: $23.90 Download: $3.60 Trees and thoughts about trees
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Print: $24.20 Download: $2.70 A visual essay of impressions from my first visit to New York City.
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Print: $27.41 Over 40 full color reproductions, representing many different series from Frost's career as an oil painter. Some of the originals are available for sale.
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Print: $29.40 Download: $2.10 a simple, peaceful book of clouds to assist in meditation
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Print: $17.47 A 2008 Calendar of Inline Skater Art
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Print: $19.00 Download: $4.00 A visually stimulating book of chakra meditations and descriptions.
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