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Chapter VII · Creation

What can we bring to life?

On turning an idea into something another person can enter, use, and change.

An artist paints a model in a luminous studio in a painting by Johannes Vermeer
Johannes Vermeer, The Art of Painting, ca. 1666–68. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna.

A story starts in the imagination and becomes something another person can enter. I find hope in that movement from an idea to a shared experience.

Making software gives me a different way to take part. A question becomes a tool; the tool meets people, and their experience changes the question.

I want the things I build to help people understand, make choices and find something worth their attention.

Argo and Ager are two attempts. They are also an invitation to keep learning.