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Holding a pinecone, I'm suddenly overwhelmed by a sense of wonder that the object I am holding is a natural formation. I am so used to seeing wood configured in a manmade format that I immediately associate the material with craftsmanship. The natural form is of course prior to anything we make with it, but this order has been reversed in my head.

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Something similar happened in my youth with videogames and nature. I did not spend much time as a child outdoors, spending most of my time playing videos, many of which were open world ones set in natural surroundings. As a teen, when I first got my driver's license, I began to explore the hiking trails near my house, and thought they reminded me a lot of exploration in video games. Of course, the order has been reversed here again: the video games were inspired by nature, not vice versa. 

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Having been exposed to the copy before the original, the copy feels original to me, and vice versa. 

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I started liking piano 100x more when I started figuring out songs by ear instead of reading sheet music. I enjoy drawing in pen without doing any pencil sketches first, and I go straight to code when making an app instead of using a prototyping tool. 

To be sure, I can't recommend this approach to anyone else - my work in music, art and code is sloppy, probably because I am so impatient. I'm simply observing a pattern: it seems I strongly dislike intermediate steps. 

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Pinecones philosophy aesthetics

A hatred for intermediates personal-reflection art music aesthetics code