Reflections 14th May
On Generative Trespass
I love how a piece of writing, an image, or a passing comment can trigger a train of thought and insight.
Nick Hayes's “Book of Trespass” is one such. I find the idea of “trespass”, in an age where we find ourselves increasingly hemmed in, a powerful one
When you come to think about it, trespassing is at the heart of innovation and growth. When a person, or a business, fences something in and encloses it, from land to music to talent, it becomes about exploitation, not evolution.
Growth of anything organic requires semi-permeable boundaries in order that information can be exchanged. Too much permeability and the cell loses its identity and dies. Too little, however, and it becomes shut off from its surroundings, fails to adapt, and dies.
The greatest levels of development occur at the boundaries where two different systems meet and mix. The collision of the cold waters of the deep, and the warm water of the shallows, is, after all, where we started. I…
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