THE WAY I SEE THINGS · PART 1
The Painting Was Already There
Sometimes understanding arrives as a whole picture. The work is finding the language—and asking what the picture has left out.
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The Way I
See Things.
Notes on Meaning, Memory and Interpretation
I don’t simply want to understand what people believed. I want to understand what the world must have looked like to them for those beliefs to make sense.
These essays follow the way my mind moves: from a whole picture I struggle to explain, to an ancient listener, an inherited image and a fragment of history that keeps asking questions. Philosophy, spirituality, psychology and art meet here as ways of exploring how meaning takes shape.
This is part of Identity & Creation: the stories and images through which we understand ourselves, and what becomes possible when we give an inward question a form. Come curious. There is room to wonder, and room to look more closely.
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THE WAY I SEE THINGS · PART 2
Before It Became a Message for Us
Before a text spoke to us, it belonged to someone else’s world. I want to meet the person who heard it first.
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No Angel Wings and No Dragon Bones
Human visitors, six-winged beings, Renaissance babies and fossil wings: how did such different things enter our inherited pictures?
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What Survives Is Not the Whole Story
A ritual, a winged disc, a question that will not leave: following the movement from recognition to investigation.
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