I'm not much of a communicator - either written or verbal. Normally it's like pulling teeth to get me to write anything, and taking a vow of silence for me would pose no challenge. So if you found your way to this page somehow, please don't check back expecting journal updates, because chances are there won't be any.

However I did want to say to all the amazing fractal artists out there that I'm having a VERY difficult time trying to decide which deviations to add my "favorite" stamp to. Not because there aren't any - just the opposite! There are dozens that I absolutely love! The artistic talent at this site is astounding!

Unfortunately I can't add them all because my computer is old and slow, and my connection is just not that fast. I have to reboot my old dinosaur several times a night because it slows to a crawl and then just stops. The process of adding deviations to my favorites eats up a lot of time. (I didn't get to bed at all last night!) And it's so hard to decide what to add when there are so many incredible fractals out there!

So if I've favored one or two or three of your fractals, it's probably the case that there were several more which I loved almost or just as much. Sometimes I decided on what to add simply because I liked the color combination of one more than another.

The other artists submitting deviations here are incredibly talented too ... it's just easier for me to rule out subjects that I'm not into when I'm looking at representational rather than abstract art. But even when I don't care for the subject of a piece, I can still be amazed by the talent that produced it.

Peace!

~ Heidi


SOME OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES:

"To find yourself - think for yourself."
- Socrates (469 BC – 399 BC)

"Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1834 - 1872)

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."
- Albert Camus (1913 – 1960)

"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself … aloud."
- Coco Chanel (1883 – 1971)

"Every society honors its live conformists and its dead trouble makers."
- Mignon McLaughlin (1913 – 1983)

"To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind."
- Charlotte P. Gillman (1860 - 1935)

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"
- Bob Marley (1945 - 1981)

"Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity are both uncivilized and undemocratic."
- Mohandis (Mahatma) Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

"There is a continuing, mandatory need for heresy in its most profound sense; for freedom to choose and follow truth wherever it leads."
- William Edelen (b. 1922)

"You measure democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists."
- Abbie Hoffman (1936 - 1989) Political Activist

"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)

"All great truths begin as blasphemies."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

"A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne."
- Georges Clemenceau (1841 - 1929) French statesman