Spacial relativity
Navigate complexities
Concept of support
By focusing on essential features, we may overlook important details.
“The art of reasoning consists of rightly ordering the steps which are necessary in order to reach a desired conclusion.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Vibrant current
Randomness pulsates
Incessant becoming
The intellect seeks to impose order, carving up sensation into discrete units for practical purposes.
“The element of chance…is precisely what allows for the appearance of the new.” – Henri Bergson
All arranged
In a way
That suggests
We overcome obstacles and strive for creation.
“One should not wish to erase from life its wild and wicked features; one should know how to use them for advantage.” – Friedrich Nietzsche
Conversation murmur
Inebriating dance
Of consciousness
Hovering on the edge emphasizes the importance of intentionality, the way that our consciousness is always directed towards something.
“An idea is an inheritance complicated by private experience.” – F Scott Fitzgerald
Toy robot
Encased in
Transparent plastic
The mint robot can be understood as an actual entity existing within a complex of experiences.
“The actual world is a process of becoming, and… these becomings are not independent of one another. They require each other’s natures for the determination of their own natures.” – Alfred North Whitehead
Inert depictions
Negative space
Experience elements
The specific qualities we perceive are all constituted by our consciousness.
“Negative space is magical – create it, don’t just fill it up!” – Timothy Samara
Functional
Object
Transforms
Husserl, the father of phenomenology, emphasized the importance of bracketing out assumptions and returning to the essence of an object or experience through intentional consciousness.
“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and adding his own contribution to the creative act.” – Marcel Duchamp
Points on a line
Clear partition
Slice of space
A continuous flow of experience constitutes consciousness.
“The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.” – Gottfried Leibniz
Creepy doll
Seems to possess
Disquieting sentience
The vacant eyes, devoid of true sight, hold a gaze that seems to pierce through time.
“Many things, for aught I know, may exist, whereof neither I nor any other man hath or can have any idea or notion whatsoever.” – George Berkeley
Within sterile confines
Silent narratives
Cultural significance
The display case acts as a barrier, separating the viewer and blurring the lines between authenticity and artifice.
“Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector’s passion borders on the chaos of memories.” – Walter Benjamin