Whole Earth Catalogue
A visual representation completed with code, designed as covers for the iconic Whole Earth Catalogs.
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Flipping through the pages of the Last Whole Earth Catalogue, I stumbled upon an intriguing article by Buckminster Fuller, where he elaborates on humans’ connection and relationship with the universe. The three covers created are based on his definition of synergy: recognizing that the behavior of whole systems will go a certain way, unaffected by the behavior of things that compose that system.
In essence, this definition encourages us to think of the individual life as a part of something bigger and uncontrollable.
The following covers that were designed for Whole Earth are meant to represent my stages of understanding this concept.
We begin with the bigger question It’s visualised as a blurry idea, the desire to find meaning, and the curiosity of what lies beyond. It’s the first sense of awareness that we exist, and therefore the question of whether anything else exists.
We then realize that everything in existence is connected. We reach a little bit more clarity, we seek to understand the extent of these connections, and the meaning of our existence.
Finally, we acknowledge that everything that happens not only connects, but shapes the unique behaviour of the universe, defining us as a collective synergy, in which we may each act by our own free will, but will always belong to that which created us.