“They represent distance relationships and growth phenomena.” Perfect. Good. Good binary to go by. We wish to push out and to grow and then to consolidate our center. There is no harm in that. At the other edge. All edges…we find others doing the same thing. Reliably. Yes there are some who have a greater push and aggressiveness and on those sides we are pushed in. Do we find ourselves in a land, a surface? Is this a mysterious and terror inspiring place that we encounter: the raw expanse? Or is the Voronoi a means of explaining the rawness of the spaces and possible spaces out there? I wish to maintain my center, me being, my will to live and my limbic security in my mammalian brain. Then there are the edges…I know that I have to betray a fact of my empathetic self to achieve the pushing outward. I do not wish to have done to me what I do to others.
But without this I would implode. I would collapse upon the center of myself, which would cease to be because of the will, the aggressiveness of the others. Then I remember the great religions of stating that the ‘do unto others’ credo is the center of the civilized and empathetic self. Your parents continually teach you to observe empathy at the same time you should be aggressive. When we hover far above…get the distance…we see what the raw space looks like: there is a beautiful and ordered pattern of edges and dots. Sometimes the dots are not there. In architecture and space there are volumes to live in. yet at the center there is that outward and inward push and pull: ‘I need to expand’ with ‘I need to reflect, understand, consolidate, and empathize’. Dividing up the world this way looks beautiful…we see a world of desire in boundaries. Dividing up a country this way in terms of population density we see the principle in effect: those cells with the most dense and consolidated center become more ‘tense’ with each other…. they form smaller cells. The land looks like a great uneven net was thrown over it. Capturing what? A struggle?
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