Monkey See, Monkey Do...

A lot of my non-artist friends ask me how I come up with ideas for my work. Perhaps it was easier when I was focusing on ceramic vessels? But here's a prime example of how ideas intersect, or sometimes encounter each other and align. While reading Carlo Rovelli's book, Reality is Not What it Seems (the journey to quantum gravity), I encountered the above illustration on the upper left addressing packets of space, and later reading about the granularity of time. I have stopped  considering it a coincidence that I picked up this particular book at Daunt books, a travel bookstore of all places, during mid January when I was wrestling with how time is illusory, and how memories puncture through time and space.