live on the edges or not at all

["Edges 1". Part of "The Edges" series. Click on image to enlarge...] Over the weekend while I was working on the above drawing, from out of nowhere the phrase, "Live on the edges or not at all" suddenly popped into my head. So I used that line for the drawing’s title etc. Since then the line has stayed with me. I’ve been giving it a lot of thought. What exactly do I mean by it? Here are some notes, in no particular order. 1. There are lots of edges. The phrase, "Living on The Edge" often connotes something negative. Think of Jimi Hendrix, dying young from drug and alcohol abuse. Or William Blake, whose visionary art and poetry was never properly understood in his lifetime. Or William S. Burroughs, and his crazy years of lonely exile. All living on the edges of Society. All paying a heavy price for the privilege. You get the idea. But there are other edges out there. Plenty of them. Apple obsessing about industrial design. Dell obsessing about their...