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I’ve seen a lot of ballpark pictures in my life. I think of baseball, not as something that is organized necessarily in advanced, but something in its natural state just breaks out. People start playing because they have the opportunity to do so. There is a kind of rhyzynergy™ at the foundational levels of the game, observed spontaneity. It may not be that if you build it, they will come, but if there is a field somewhere, a game will break out. I don’t know if that is a what one would call a self-organizing system, but I find the possibility illustrative as well as amusing.

Having lived in the Southwest for over 15 years, Carl Wilkerson has become one of its most thoughtful observers. Among his creative, philosophical and intellectual pursuits, photography has become central. "A camera produces both an object, the photograph, and a record of the subjective," Wilkerson observes. "There are so many things I can explain only through a picture. Words are not always enough." His works include: ethnography, landscapes and cityscapes, models and portraits (of both human and furry variety). He generally simply captures what interests him in the moment, but he is available for commissions.