I was not happy with my work, my making, my…doing of late. And then Bob Ross takes a ‘deliberate accident’ and makes it into a happy accident when he prophesizes, “We don’t make mistakes. We have happy accidents.” Serendips, an accident in my brain, a happy pen stroke. Let’s have a happy accident, an epiphany apopheny.

The source of this river of sublime generosity is the kleckograph below here and from Simon Ensor‘s link here:

I “blot” a poem from the original post that Simon shares:

And here is another of my own apophenies:

Here are some actual klex I made in response:

What a kick! This is called ‘engaging the default mode network or more simply “unfocusing”. Or as the shepherd in me likes to say, “woolgathering”. If you want to know more about this I suggest this very cool book by Srini Pillay, Tinker Dabble Doodle Try.

And finally, here is Dave Gray dabbling in happy accidents. If you don’t do00dle with anything else play with this. So.Much.Fun.