7 July

Photomosaics may be a good model to show that ‘parts’ and ‘wholes’, or local/global, are not two separate things. Each part of a photo mosaic is itself a whole image. What we call society is all of us, obviously, but each of us is a global viewpoint on the entire society. We’re not parts, each of us is a whole. The global is not lots of little locals, added up, each local is a global already. What Koestler called holons.