I always thought that everyone is the same

If each human being is an individual with a complete network of senses of his own and a special combination of abilities, then the vision of each human being will be different, and the way in which each individual determines his life will be a unique interpretation. Captured in the complexity of civilization, man often loses sight of his human destination. The artist not only records the physical data of his own being, but has to act as an interpreter, a translator of human experience. Art functions as diagnosis, definition, and standard for human life.

Artist Statement
This work is a very important statement, because these words I have always heard throughout my life. These words come from my mothers heart, she had always taught me these words, “everybody is the same”

I have always lived these words. Until I have experienced and discovered through life that this is not the truth.

I used the language English, as it is the first universal language.

Papamiento
Si kada ser humano ta un individuo cu un net completamente propio di sentimentonan y kombinashonan special di kapacidad,e ora e vision di kada hende ta diferente y e moda ku kada cual ta fiha su bida y ambiente ta un interpretacion uniko.

Sera den e complexidad di e civilisacion, hende hopi biaha ta perde su destino humano foi bista .E artista no solamente ta registra e datonan fisiko di su existencia, pero mester aktua como interprete y traduktor di experencianan humano.

Arte ta fungi komo diagnostiko,definishon y norma pa e bida di un ser humano.

Text : Numbers are tools

Humanity’s fascination with numbers is ancient and complex. Our present relationship with numbers reveals both a highly developed tool and a highly developed user, working together to measure, create and predict both ourselves and the world around us. But like every symbiotic couple, the tool we would like to believe is separate from us (and thus objective) is actually an intricate reflection of our thoughts, interest, and capabilities. One intriguing result of this symbiosis is that the numeric system we use to describe patterns, is actually used in a patterns fashion to describe. In learning how to abstract, we learn that all information is potentially expressive in numbers.

One consequence of abstraction is that we must ignore the individual characteristics of entities we abstract.
Apart from the existence of the numeric system and numbers, individual numbers have no meaning.

Thus, our number system is seen as an objective tool-a tool that does not reflect human preference, emotion, or inconsistency. As such it is a tool used not to express ourselves, but is reserved only to describe the world around us.

We do not write poetry with numbers, nor do we express our personal doubts or prej
udices through them…except as our humanity is projected onto the emotionless toil of mathematical proof, ledger balances, or pedagogical exercises.

Herein I return an analysis to the public in the form of an interactive visualization, whose aim is to provoke awareness of one’s own numeric manifestations.

References
Benford.F.1938.The law of anomalous numbers
proceeding of the American philosophical society
Golan Levin-the secret life of numbers

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