I loved the thought from Doc that the process that produces the purely aesthetic (if there is such a thing) may LATER be found to be a process that provides desirable characteristics of the engineering kind. Hadn't thought that way myself; thought you get the surface look from a process as a manipulatible by-product but still just a byproduct (cf. color-producing case hardening). I think the vinings and branchings and twistings of the "organic" seen in the arabesque borders are a celebratory rendering of the sinuous, bending, pliant and resilient strength of of the plant kingdom and also of the wonderfully useful things that are made by processes imitative of "natural" growth: weaving, twisting, bundling.
jack
Jack You hit the nail on the head
Casey
