as if the brain, as in the Universe more generally, resounds to natural (tempered) ratios, and natural 'consonances', natural or 'numerical' sequences and collections of things and events, and is often able to pick up patterns or resonances intuitively for similar and somewhat 'circular' reasons. My dream is of a future visual art-language which is musical in principle and interconnected through a new fluid and dynamic logic. The small step presented here ( in these colour-modulation paintings ) of orientating or aligning colours according to changes in luminance or brightness is like a simple poem, a modal song, whose rhyming couplet structure points to the future, to the emergence of a new and exciting means of expression, a new visual language of unimagined resonance, a visual extension to the languages of music, mathematics, and words, and which perhaps may one day embrace them all. Documented revisions to this web page: 19 May 2003: [no revision to text.] Improved HTML-table structure that sets out page and also styled typeface via CSS instead of with font tag . 28 June 2004 [minor revision to text to point out that the name , 'photon', is in fact attributable to the physical chemist Gilbert Lewis who later (1926) gave the modern name to the newly-inferred particles-of-light written up in a paper by Einstein. Lewis even proposed the radical idea that atoms transmit (rather than emit ) photons only to other atoms or subatomic particles 1 . His concept implied that photons formed an interconnecting