The dots we want to perceive, the ones we choose to ignore and the stories we tell ourselves...

NN VII, charcoal & chalk tonal study.

A dot is a signal, a sign. It gives us a point but it also gives us a direction. it points to the next dot. Perhaps it points to several dots. Perhaps it is part of a liner sequence. Perhaps it is part of a complex matrix of dots? Or perhaps it isn't.

Perhaps it is just a dot, a single  isolated point of information?

Perhaps, perhaps not.

There are very few, if any, totally isolated dots in the universe that aren't related in some way to any others.

But there is another option as to what it might be. Perhaps our dot is not part of the liner sequence or  matrix that we think it is. Perhaps it is part of a totally different pattern and it is just  coincidence, or apophenia, that makes it appear to some people as being part of the system their conscious or subconscious wants it to be.

​And so the conspiracy theory is born.