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There’s a haunting line in Homer’s Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson. It’s describing people on the other side of the world “who live between the sunset and the dawn.” In one sense this refers to geography and the day. It’s also something more. Half the people sleep while the other half are awake, but we’re […]
Pure spatial intuition is the goal – Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution Nietzsche and Bergson are my favourite Western philosophers. The first breaks things apart while affirming individual will against society, history, and collectivism. The second builds up, using a logic of intuition. Nietzsche read Buddhism critically, and Bergson is sometimes consistent with […]
My favourite line in the Book of Changes is for hexagram one in the fifth place: “Flying dragon in the heavens.” I like it for philosophical reasons, and what it means structurally. The fifth line of the first hexagram is important. Another line I like is in hexagram five: “Waiting in the meadow, it furthers […]
For Conceptual Art I find symbols, assemble ideas, and connect it together aesthetically. Researching the lines of Shakespeare, I found this: To gild refined gold, to paint the lily To throw a perfume on the violet To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous […]
There is an invisible world out there, and we are living in it – Bill Viola “None of them noticed a large tawny owl flutter past the window“ – J.K. Rowling The creative process for Conceptual Art is the same with Conceptual Portraits. I learn about a person’s life with its details, interests, […]
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness ― George Orwell, 1984 1984 is a well known but you must know it book. I read it as a teenager with little idea of what it meant. The film version is grey, dark, and depressing, except for one scene where Winston escapes […]
Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain...
The Zen aesthetic is fascinating. Less is more, and encourages mental calm.
I enjoyed this Conceptual Art because initially I didn’t know what to do.
