Long, long ago yours truly was as lot younger and the internet was younger still. I was one of the few lucky enough to have 1200 baud dial-up access to the then uncharted territories of email, ftp-servers, archie-databases and, oh-my-dear-what-a-wealth-of-knowledge, Usenet newsgroups. Amidst all the turmoil (yes, even back then…) there was this jewel of a music-related newsgroup, bit.listserv.allmusic, in which a lot of knowledgable musicians, composers and lovers of music gathered and exchanged ideas, opinions, music, and whatnot. Somehow I was lucky enough to be admitted entrance. One of the participants was Sonia Kovitz, a kind and friendly Jewish-American lady with good taste, lots of knowledge and the heart and mind of an artist. Parallel to the list-discussions we occasionally exchanged private mails, she sent me some woodcuts she’d done… and somewhere down the road of that net-friendship she concluded that apparently my life was all about trying to master the chaos. From then on she called me Chaosmeister.
Now, some 2.5 decades later, the name has stuck and still rings true. Yes, I do firmly believe that trying to cope with chaos is somehow at the core of every sensible human endeavour; and thus at the core of our very existence. And that’s all there is to it: trying to deal with the onslaught of entropy, not by resisting it as if it were an enemy, but by welcoming it, moving with it, and thus slowly, year after year, coming to peace with it — which is the only mastery it allows. There’s Zen in there, and infinite worlds to be discovered.
It used to be that all forms of public presence were gathered under one domain, omega-art.com (design, music, poetry, digital audio, etc.). No more. Omega Art has always primarily been the outlet for design-related work, both commercial and private. It seemed fitting to remove all unrelated matters and give them their own home: chaosmeister.com.
Welcome.