How does art represent chaos?

Artists like Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko sought to capture primordial states through Abstract Expressionism. Pollock said, 'I am nature... I work from the inside out.' Their canvases become fields where chaos and order negotiate. Today, digital and generative art uses algorithms to explore randomness, from fractal art to AI-generated images emerging from noise.

What is the psychological interpretation of chaos?

Carl Jung understood the psyche as containing its own tohu wa-bohu—the unconscious realm of shadow and potential. He wrote, 'In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.' Modern trauma therapy recognizes that healing often requires passing through chaos, with old patterns dissolving before new ones can form.

How does AI relate to tohu wa-bohu?

AI systems extract order from information chaos. Large language models find patterns in textual chaos, neural networks create structure from noise, and emergent behaviors arise from simple rules. The training process mirrors the biblical movement from formless void to ordered creation—structure emerging from statistical patterns.

תֹ֙הוּ֙ וָבֹ֔הוּ

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