Angels Indicating Spheres, Rancho Mirage (2012)

Dimensions: 24 in. by 36 in.
Status: Available

Michael Shermer, in his book "Believing Brains", speaks of "patternicity": the tendency to find meaningful patterns in both meaningful and meaningless data; and "agenticity": the tendency to infuse patterns with meaning, intention, and agency. I am imagining this as translucent images glimpsed in the distance. The pool is modeled on my parents pool in Rancho Mirage. "Patternicity" and "agenticity" might be creations of the brain, but that doesn't necessarily mean that God couldn't have created that feature when creating humans.