Reasons to Get Up in the Morning

2006

Personally, I believe that human life is completely meaningless, just a biological exercise along with the lichen, beetles, cats, trees and what have you.

Within this void you need some sort of framework, some anchor and way of gauging what to do and what is important. Different people have different reasons to live; religion, family, friends, the pursuit of pleasure, money, power; a mix of things.

You’ll appreciate that a diagram of every motivation known to mankind would get pretty complicated, so I’ve just gone for five interlaced bands. As the idea developed into the form of a diagram, I thought it would be interesting if it had some sort of logical structure. I decided to cover all of the line combinations once and once only. This took ages to work out, first calculating the permutations, and then getting them all in the correct places. I thought about doing 6 lines, but the addition of another colour increased the complexity considerably.