Knocking on wood has no effect on luck, seeing a black cat has no repercussions on your day, and just because the thirteenth of the month falls on a Friday doesn’t mean you're going to die. So why do people try to organize such chaos? The answer to this question encourages a macroscopic approach. Life itself is an unexplainable natural phenomenon—there are infinite unanswerable questions and the future, by definition, is unpredictable. Some people find that as a result of living in constant fear of the unknown, finding an explanation in nonsensical patterns is the only way to remain sane. The same pattern can be applied to art—a field that in its totality is an applied meaning of colors and patterns and skills that on their own are seemingly meaningless. Like superstitions, however, the harmony of randomness works together to create meaning. So it may come to no surprise that some individuals who create meaning out of the randomness surrounding them rely on superstitions for their success.