Game analogies in Universe and Universe analogies in a game.

Hermenaria analogy game is my actual vision of navigation in patterns, ornaments and states of mind. But it is navigation in a vivid organic system. A visual world, a character, a storage disk or a personal library reflect a way one perceives reality.

I think that a one’s point of view on a fictional world or information structure creates a new dimension. This dimension expands the original world or structure into a more complex and cross-linked. Sometimes it leads to inconsistency, sometimes – to elaboration and multiplicity.

My idea is to embrace the existence of infinite links – realized as well as potential connections. When we focus too much on calculation of imaginary world or information structure’s pre-ordered or pre-combined links, we restrict the elaboration of itself.

From the whole of infinite potential connections, we chose to follow and program only those limited to our actual idea of the present moment. We make others possibilities out of focus before we even realize their existence. I refer more to a holistic way. The way where I take attention on an actual element (character, information unity, fictional sequence or data collection) and its actual state. I mean by this that I focus on one particular thing or relation of things and its personal ways and forms of existence. I prefer this way to a calculation or a combination of possible interactions.

The more I look at the personal style and characteristics and observe, the more I realize and follow its nature and transformation. I see it as an organic way of adaptation rather than a construction or modification. I need to know one’s rhythm and follow its circle, style and dynamics. I refer to an Ayurveda concept that illustrates a state of mind, body and their dynamics rather than statements as ill/healthy. I call it an analogy bubble (pattern + intention). I use the idea that a state relates firstly to a personal organic signature of one’s.

This initial signature or form crosses different conditions and transforms more or less productively. Someone’s point of view will find one’s condition healthy, someone – ugly, another will find it similar or alienist. Still a state is a condition itself. A personal or other’s intention brings light or shadow, focus or zoom on some parts, perceives a particular ambience and can be indifferent to a particular mood. From this comes my idea to use different mediums of signs and images. A body language, a visual language, a psychology language, an esoteric language amount others. This is the reason I find inspiration and analogies in such practices and methods that come from different areas of knowledge. I find links between runes practice of concentrating on an actual state of personal condition and a psychologic terms of searching and distinguishing personal introjections or internalizations. These cross-linked areas of human psyche lead me to an interdisciplinary research and art forms.

The Cloisters Playing Cards

Queen of Collars, Queen of Horns, Queen of Nooses, Queen of Tethers, from The Cloisters Playing Cards Date ca. 1475–80, Made in Burgundian territories, South Netherlandish

I perceive OH or metaphorical cards as synthesis of actual psychology and art therapy as runes and tarot practices could signify in other time. I see an analogy link of art and science in a point of time between a Hermann Hesse imagined gameplay in a Glass Bead Game novel published in 1943 and semantics web concepts like trails in Vannevar Bush article As We May Think, published in The Atlantic Monthly in July 1945.

Finally, as a researcher in astrology, I find an idea of analogy and any acausal links one of the core keys to reading one’s natal chart. I think that analogy and causality may work together in some form or act in different (not necessary opposite) ways in astrological interpretation. I perceive this interpretation as following: a fundamental board – a natal chart, a unique combination of elements (planets, houses, signs, four elements, figures, quadrants) and their dynamics that creates synthesis of one’s personality and life way varieties. Still, a prism of an astrologer, his background, a prism of a client and his perception as well as their interaction (called synastry in astrology) form multidimensional readings each time. And the quality and complexity of these dimensions depend on these three factors amount others influences.

This is my way of perceiving the essence and creation of Hermenaria analogy game and its elements. Synchronicity, organic forms analogies, fluidity of a game state are significative notions for the moment.

In next articles, I will explore elements as symbolic figures and their application in my fictional world Brunaria Path.

You will find Brunaria Path visual fiction on a dedicated page category – Brunaria Path Fiction.