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                     100 Branch Tenets reach out to you:

Held within the World's Longest Artist's Book are over One Hundred Artworks.
These Creative works were inked to communicate many theories, thoughts and imaginings.

The Characters and Scenes they depict stem from the mind's thoughts whilst digesting the passively received 'input' of this Planet's media giants and pro-actively reaching for the real 'input' of daily life.

                     Each Branch forked from one of NINE Core Tenets:

As Faction and Docu-Soaps lather up similar bubbles
and the time for actor avatars arrives,
the virtual appeal of fictitional spiel will at first all-envelop our eyes.

Once we see what is what, and we tire of the plot to consume all consumers free thought,
A new seismic youth
will dig deeper truth
and the old schools will get what they taught.

Documented throughout the cyclic nature of human development,
are certain core traits and activities that show little sign of changing:

WAR? ... what's that for?
PEACE? ... to do what with?
GREED? ... fill up and still feed?
LOVE? ... make it to break it?

The First Evolvement of the Nine Tenets sought to isolate the Nine Tenets or Core Traits that are ever-present in our lives. There could have been four, or more, or over twelve but as we read, researched and delved, we whittled down Nine Distillates of 'Being' that established a foundation for thought. From these Nine Tenets, we projected outward in two sideway directions to extrapolate Branch Tenets and Root Tenets.

                     The 9 Sprouted from THREE Root Tenets:

It's neater and easier to launch life and time from a single source if you are of fixed-mind, and see 'beginnings' without a 'start' or without a perpetual 'history'.

But it's unclear and messy to adopt a "World without End" equation for use in any formula, other than that which has a "Beginning without Start".

"We smiled at this top-toe quandry, happily playing around with reversable Tenets:
MADAMIMADAM ( Madam I'm Adam ),
 but as Adam was himself just a continuance of development within the tales of one major
World Religion our brains were racked straight back on line to the joys of the unknown as
suddenly, we developed 'GAFOF'!!"
 

G.A.F.O.F. (Groom All Fiction on Fact) became an important Tenet, because it developed in two ways. Firstly, it spawned a second Tenet with the same abbreviation, and then, through some specialised 'Tomlinson and Jesse'arguement (and black coffee), a fine third Root Tenet appeared when looking at the abbreviation backwards ... F.O.F.A.G. ( ... For Our Future And Growth ).

"So, as all three stood at the very grounding of our thoughts, we created their three illustrated forms, and termed them "Root Tenets". Ah but then, roots are like branches as they spread out! If we had continued to explore our thinking at this point, this Second Evolvement may never have seen the light."

Any nearer to the meaning of life, the all and everything?

The search was on and the need for a single hub to drive everything was obvious. The Artists needed a theory of belief - a logos. One notion hit them simultaneously, that of joy. 'Joy' itself, as the 'outcome from the pursuit of happiness', seemed to strike a Universal Chord - a found cord.

"The Word was working for us, but what Tenet could we make from the initials J.O.Y. and what character could we design to epitomise 'JOY'?"

                     Fed of the Sap of TWO Ground Tenets:

Judge for yourself our J.O.Y. and
Judge both our joy of joys ...