A Cloud Can Look Like A Camel,

When The Thing Observed... Is Seen As An Agglomeration Of Pieces, The Details Lose Their Meaning And The Whole Becomes Unrecognizable. This Is Often True Of Snapshots In Which No Pattern Of Salient Shapes Organizes The Mass Of Vague And Complex Nuances.

Orderliness By Itself Is Not Sufficient To Account For The Nature Of Organized Systems In General Or For Those Created By Man In Particular. Mere Orderliness Leads To Increasing Impoverishment And Finally To The Lowest Possible Level Of Structure, No Longer Clearly Distinguishable From Chaos, Which Is The Absence Of Order. A Counterprinciple Is Needed, To Which Orderliness Is Secondary. It Must Supply What Is To Be Ordered.

A Cloud Can Look Like A Camel, But A Camel Is Unlikely To Look Like A Cloud. This Is So Because The Signifier Must Be Able To Stand For The Whole Category Of The Signified. The Cloud Looks Like All Camels, But No Camel Looks Like All Clouds.

The Principle Of Parsimony Is Valid Esthetically In That The Artist Must Not Go Beyond What Is Needed For His Purpose.

In A Land Of Immigrants, One Was Not An Alien But Simply The Latest Arrival.