That my motifs have potential to generate, procreate, spawning new ideas, shapes meanings and metaphors.
I watched a program on ‘Trading’ two days ago. How people can easily become a trader on-line with a bit of trial and error and practice. Seems not that different to gambling really, stimulates the same part of the brain, I imagine. Perhaps it’s more predictable than gambling? The people on the documentary discussed how trading is simply knowing when to buy and when to sell. Predicting uptrends and down trends. That they can ‘jump’ from different company’s shares on the stock market, sometimes multiple times in one day! So to keep on an up trend and in some profit. This got me thinking about the computer game ‘Rainbow Island’ that I used to play in the late eighties. A character jumping from platform to platform, fighting to stay within the walls of the screen, as the water rises from the depths to ingulf him. It was a bright colourful computer game with catchy tunes, created in Japan I think. I like the idea of legs and feet ready to spring into action, in the jumping posture ready for elevation. Coiled with potential energy, seeking a better reward or just ‘jumping’ ship. Like on-line trading, like ‘Rainbow island.’ Like changing homes or nomadic, like embarking on a new painting…
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