on the structural analogy between aesthetic and scientific methodologies

what is that point
of intersection
between
expressive activity,
creativity
and
scientific experience?

note
the close relationship
between all three
when children use brushes, paints and paper
to express their world,
to develop habits
of drawing and painting
that make concrete impressions,
that form general (scientific) theories
about the worldinwhichtheylive,
in which their creative desire to express
is as ever-present
as the desire to observe reality,
and seeing their own ideas
echoed back to them on paper
somwhow stimulates
a higher level
of thought
and understanding

to become immersed
in experience
through its expression
while also seeking
to negate borders and boundaries
between art and science,
and perhaps to show
that their separation
is not so important

and
when finding the common ground
of artandscience
in the larger truth
of a child's expression


one can say it this way...

"Given a finite repertory of R signs, a finite number
of M rules in order to combine these signs with one
another,and given, a finite intuition, I, which determines
from case to case which signs and which rules are to be
chosen under R and M. The totality of these three elements
(R, M, I) will then represent the aesthetic program where
I represents the intervention of chance and the whole thing
becomes a fantastic binomial in which R and M are the norm
and I is creative arbitrariness."

or one can say it D's way...


...


Three year old D is studying a photograph of a penguin
while gluing a little cardboard triangle to a cardboard cylinder.


What are you making?

"A penguin. Penguins don't fly, you know. This is his beak."

Do you know alot about penguins?

"I know the baby ones. But I don't know about the big ones.
They just eat fish."

Where do they get fish from?

"When they dive in the water, they dive on top and try to get them.
But the whales go higher than the penguins. And the sharks too."

Where do penguins sleep?

"Whales sleep in the ocean and leopard seals sleep on the ice.
Penguins sleep in a deep deep deep deep hole in the snow."

Will you make feet for your penguin?

"He doesn't have feet because he only stands until you push him over."

Do their feet get cold, standing on all that ice and snow?

"They just keep their feet warm like birds. But they don't put their eggs
on the ice because the babies will get cold. The mommies keep the eggs.
When their eggs are on their daddy's feet, they fall over."

Are they ever in danger?

"If a shark tried to bite the penguin, it would jump up high. Penguins are fast,
and faster than sharks in the water."

Why are you putting your paper penguin in a little box?

"He is in his bed and the babies, too. They just sleep near each other
and that's how they keep each other warm."

Is that how you sleep too?

"No. I sleep in my own bed and my mommy and daddy sleep in their bed.
My dreams keep me warm. And my dreams warm my mommyanddadddy's
dreams too."


...

"Scientific and artistic work have the same
common characteristics in that they portray
reality, give it meaning, and transform it.
That is, they reduce objects and facts to
social meanings. They are both semiotics of the real."
(Ugo Volli, La sciennza e lárte)

Intuitively, children know;

"Even in art, there is sufficient space for exact research."
(Paul Klee)

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