Simplicity in Complexity (and vice-versa): c/o Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press and Frith Street Gallery

INDIVIDUAL
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 INTERPERSONAL    :     SCIENCES               

HUMANISTIC --------------------------------------  MECHANISTIC      

SOCIOLOGY  :   POLITICAL 

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	© Courtesy of Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press and Frith Street Gallery | Simpleton, Simpleton, Simpleton (Ellipsis), 2021 by Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press

In nursing you must be aware and sensitive to words, their use and meaning. Recognition of the power of words (in-and-out of context), is hopefully also reflected in society; but sadly emotional, social and spiritual intelligence are often found lacking. Long carrying a sense of being a mathematical simpleton, gullible in over-thinking things, and all too easily distracted; the currents of education, life chances (health career), and clinical experience have brought me to a place I shouldn't tread - whether terra firma, or water.

While socially, words become archaic, replaced by others, words can and do also reverse their meaning over time. Although manufacturing is now also 'additive' and not necessarily a subtractive process, the meaning of these symbols in mathematics remains constant: as per their function.

Simple in appearance, Hodges' model can hide complexity: the complexity of care, in all its scope and scales. And yet with the potential to be inclusive in its relational scope. Symbols and model's - conceptual frameworks can be extended in their purposes and functions, as long as we are consistent in how we do (propose) this.

I will learn how well, temperature permitting, I can 'tread' water, while sign-posting for others. . . .

Ellipsis - indeed.

My source: (print version):
FT.com. Something in the water – the rise of aquatic art

Many thanks to and courtesy of Fiona Banner aka The Vanity Press and Frith Street Gallery | Simpleton, Simpleton, Simpleton (Ellipsis), 2021, by Fiona Banner

Gavin, F. (2022). THE SHAPE OF WATER, How To Spend It, FT Weekend, pp.44-47.