Local Community is in an uproar over repeated referendum votes, and I fall into a surprisingly compatible new stream.
When I had just graduated from Pratt, My Friend Suzanne was going to many interviews looking for a job in textiles.
I stayed home and worked on my portfolio until one day I was in the mood to look for a job.
I took the subway to the textile district, went into a Chock Full of Nuts and ordered a cup of coffee. A man sitting next to me asked what I was doing and I said I am looking for a job as a colorist.
He told me that his friend was hiring at this address. I went to the address and got the job.
My friend Suzanne said, I don’t get it, I’ve been going out every day looking for a job and you go out once and get a job.
I said, The way I see it, I only need one job so I only have to go out looking for a job once. Simple mathematics.
Probability theory finds extensive applications in various fields, including statistics, economics, physics, and even artificial intelligence. It allows us to model and analyze complex systems, make predictions, and assess risks. For instance, in the realm of finance, probability theory is employed to calculate risk and determine optimal investment strategies. Introduction to Probability Theory: From Coin Flips to Casino Games
I submit that our deeper consciousness is using probability theory all the time, in the background of our conscious awareness. Perhaps it is useful to think of my approach to finding a job as a pilot wave theory or nonlocal determination. One doesn’t need to focus on a particular result but on the wholeness of everything, or the pilot wave. Some might call that faith and others might call it fate. Applying the theory of probabilities in which the observer affects the observed, I’ll go with faith. Faith is a species of consciousness, as Seth would say.
In theoretical physics, the pilot wave theory, also known as Bohmian mechanics, was the first known example of a hidden-variable theory, presented by Louis de Broglie in 1927. Its more modern version, the de Broglie–Bohm theory, interprets quantum mechanics as a deterministic theory, and avoids issues such as wave–particle duality, instantaneous wave function collapse, and the paradox of Schrödinger’s cat by being inherently nonlocal. Source: Wikipedia
Lately, I have been expending too much of my consciousness in a world dominated by governmental and non-profit interests that appear to be united in a serious mission to eliminate individualism and free enterprise.
Gaslighting Transparency
The war against individuality and free enterprise is no more apparent than in the current repeat referendum for new middle school buildings. The public voted down repairs with added-on buildings six months ago. Now our leaders are blaming the public for postponing the repairs by voting down the added-on buildings the first time and are running almost the same referendum with all the add-ons again while speaking about it as if it is only about repairs.
The leaders take no responsive action to the failure of the last referendum and accept no responsibility. Instead, they place blame on the public for not passing the referendum promptly.
Behind this drama, is the unspoken part, the incremental legislative transformation of our public school system into workforce training facilities for the state and its private partners, with “‘making spaces” that we hear about but are never shown,
The crowning glory of this long-term objective is the Maine Space Corporation, which will be the centerpiece of a state-run industry, an industry already expanding too rapidly in the private sector while poking holes in our ozone layer, as escalating climate change threatens life on Planet Earth demanding that humanity rethink the way we have been doing things since the Industrial Revolution.
Our leaders do not rethink, as evident in the repetition of almost the same referendum. They are non-interactive with the public.
None among the proponents for the new school facilities are talking about the elephant in our public educational system, even as they repeal our school charter and replace it with the words,” align with state law”.
Will the attempt to force their will over the community backfire by giving the community cause to consider all the options?
Will it be seen as a better option by most to close the local school system and let the state pay the student’s tuition to attend a school of their choice than to finance an educational system run by the state “to ensure education, training and recruitment programs are in place for the primary purpose of ensuring the availability of a highly skilled workforce to support the State’s new space economy”. source,
Should one industry be favored in our public school system, whether or not it is potentially an environmentally destructive industry?
We’ve already lost our public school system when our public schools are repurposed for a single-minded state economy. We lost our public school system through a long incremental process by which central management transformed a Home Rule state into a totalitarian state.
It is the nature of totalitarian systems to take away options but it is human nature to want freedom of choice. School choice is freedom of choice.
Let us dream on.
The hub of school buildings could create a community environment for a sector that currently doesn’t have a community, and this would be an attraction for the global movement of corporate expatriates looking for a better work world.
It would also be poetic justice to create a homegrown industrial hub instead of the state-controlled industrial training center that is what we get in the current public educational system. To not select that option, we have to select not to have a public school system on the peninsula.
Essential repairs are needed, which is the referendum we have all been waiting for. Then when we decide for school choice, we decide who will rent or buy the buildings, and/or we can consider further additions.
How About A Home Rule & Middle-Class Industrial Hub?
Instead of being the next unit in the state’s corporate grid- we could be that! We could be unique!
We have a hole in our economy where there should be a middle. Let’s fix it!
Today, things are changing. Botton up, middle out isn’t just a slogan of the Biden administration, it is a self-organizing movement. A small rural peninsula is geographically suited to cater to such a movement .
I favor researching funding for the high school through midcentury historical preservation. The Inside is so pleasantly and unpretentiously designed with well-lit rooms that fill up with sunlight.
Andersen Design was established on the Boothbay Peninsula at the same time as the high school. I can see Andersen Design design, research, and training facility in such a location but It’s not as perfect as having a workspace looking out on the Mill Pond
While the local community wages war with the totalitarian state, I received a gift from the grassroots free enterprise sector.
As the Moon Eclipses the Sun, the Pathway Opens
Art Store Front gave me an incredible lift by offering the setup for their top-tier program at a cost I can afford. Art Storefront is a company but instead of the face of the company being a large storefront, the company has many faces which are individualized artist storefronts. The individual artist’s studios are individually owned, similar to the network in my vision of individually owned makers studios but it is already in place.
Now that Art Store Front has pointed the way I understand that in the grand scheme of things It makes better sense to start with a simplified production process for graphic prints which in the Art Storefront system is done by a professional printer and can printed in any size from a small card to a room size image.
I often told my sister Elise that she should print her work larger and now by featuring her work on Art Storefront that will be possible. If you want to create a boldly evocative environmental experience, something like this reproduced in a large size would be a wild trip in which the imagination can lose itself.
I added works by my late brother-in-law, David Dupree, my late sister, Elise Isabel Andersen and also ceramics by Andersen Design, established by my late parents, Weston and Brenda Andersen. For now, I am the only living artist.
There is one-on-one human support in Zoom meetings that occurs regularly. It is a network similar to what I have been conceptualizing for Andersen Design and other makers. I see the possibilities multiplying!
Industrial Design, Now and Then: The Andersen Design Journey
My Art Storefront isn’t launched yet due to my lost phone, which has been missing for over a week. I have another phone that has a broken screen. However, it is difficult to find out about repair services when one does not have a phone. In fact there are many online sites I can’t log into for lack of a phone. I hope it will be resolved soon. Why did I lose my phone at this juncture of all times?
Art Storefronts can function in the model of the networked museum that I envisioned here, as a network of storefronts each with a section for rotating guest collections from other storefronts.
The Art Storefront’s model is individualized, They have Office Hours, Tech Support and Co-pilot Zoom meetings where one gets individual answers to what one is dealing with. It’s like, Just like that! I have a team! Wow!
Art on Art storefront can be printed on merchandise, one item being mugs The mugs are nicely designed commercial mugs. Andersen Design could specialize by featuring Andersen mugs and make them available as a product to other art studios upon approval. This could provide a source of income for small ceramic studios when the slipcasting network materializes. Or there is also Mudshark Studios on the West Coast that can produce our mugs. Imagine if there were such an operation in a free enterprise hub on the Peninsula. Andersen Design combined with a strong marketing campaign can provide slipcasting studios lots of work, whether they be studios attached to the home or a larger setting like MudShark. They are all small businesses.
I need the auto-pilot program. It is the equivalency of having a marketing team. I need a team! The Auto-Pilot program sends out social media posts and manages sales campaigns. It could be a powerful start up event similar to the New York Gift Show that stabilized Andersen Design when it was establishing itself. The Co-Pilot team can focus on the particulars and I can focus in the wave. Writing is the wave. Through writing I have made most of the connections that have been helpful to me in trying to locate the new pathway.
Ever since the possibility of joining Art Store Fronts emerged and I started writing about it in this newsletter, there has been an upsurge of new followers and subscribers across social media platforms/
I am looking into the Co-Pilot Program. I think Art Storefronts is a great setup. Very pleased to discover there are companies already out there operating in a way that is similar to how I envision Andersen Design functioning. So maybe I’m not crazy? And maybe this will all come togeather, whenever I get my phone system back in order. Life without a phone is very difficult to navigate!
