“I have a friend who without doubt has the creative genius that is so fundamental to our need to think and work differently in business today. He is in my mind light years ahead of many of us lesser mortals who tend to do what is familiar and what we know already works well. His gifts of design and innovation are in abundance and he has brought challenge and insight to several large organisations. But the wheels of business can turn slowly although he has promises and plans of work to come. It is in these moments that our capacity to lead is tested. Does he give up and return to a profession that is safer and more sure or does he hold on believing in what he is doing and what he has to give? True leaders are those who hold on in the belief that their goals can indeed be realised. It is in these defining moments that our security in ourselves is tested. To lead others we first of all need to be able to lead ourselves and to continue on our path no matter what life throws at us. From an article in 1997 by Sue Knight. “Andrew, I have a gift for you, Claus Otto Scharmer, with the support of the Society for Organizational Learning and McKinsey & Company has for the past several years been interviewing a large number of really great thinkers of our time. I have found Otto’s interviews to be remarkable...he takes these thinkers into their story that led them to what they have created. Many have commented that this was the first time that they have talked about these things. Attached then is a file with his interview with Varela. You may use this for your personal inspiration, but for the moment please do not quote from it. We expect the first twenty interviews, including this one, to be available to the public in a few weeks, and at that point the temporary restrictions will no longer apply. Andrew, I would really appreciate seeing what this stimulates.” Rick, -- I have completed the suite of images and I would like to make a gift of these images to you. How to do that in a way that is appropriate and when they no longer exist as original artifacts? “Andrew, Thank you. This is very gracious of you. I accept. Just to be clear, may I make the images visible to the public? – I like the words very much that you have included with the images. Also I will show them immediately to Otto Scharmer and the small group who are working on the Interview Dialogue project... I am very excited about that project...I think it has the possibility of starting an important dialogue on leadership in a very broad sense. And I think the images will make an impact” From private correspondence in late spring 2001 with Richard Karash, founding member of the Society for Organizational Learning, Boston MA.

In the early part of the summer of 2001 before, during and after the Dialogue on Leadership project, so far as I was concerned with the Varela interview, I was sharing my work with Prof. Michael Leyton at Rutgers University. Leyton shows that perception is fundamentally the extraction of time from shape – and symmetry is the means by which shape is converted into our memory where, memory recovers causal history. Among a number of artworks I shared with Michael was the image preceding this one, out of which it was a resurrection from a creative collapse (de Lange). In the middle of that fateful summer of 2001 Michael wrote of that image, “ Dear Andrew, Again I am totally knocked out by the image you sent me, which feels to me like some dark landscape that I am hovering over as if in a dream – those night time flights that bombers had to take in the war over foreign landscape that seemed so beautiful and full of untold meaning.” -- Michael. Note: The two collapsing columns re-presented right are identical in height, but not in weight, since one is a single increment darker and of greater contrast. In relation to art and creativity - a more mystical person as he thinks and knows can in some crucible of mind, body & imagination create the physical from the metaphysical. Presencing before the fact Done by doing