Space

Passive reception
External stimuli
Core tenets

The delicate dance of perception requires us to be constantly aware of our own role in shaping experience.

“The world of appearances is not the world of realities.” – Edwin Abbott

Surface reflections
Optical space
Reverberating

Foreground background relationships resonate.

“Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite.” – Arshile Gorky

Still life
Before a window
Vibrant pulsation

The primacy of lived experience is the foundation of all knowledge.

“Art lives in the intuition, not in the concept.” – Benedetto Croce

Pale shadow
Sensible objects
Intelligible world

As the colors that we see in the world around us are sensible, we are able to participate in the intelligible world.

“The soul is a part of the intelligible world that has become trapped in the sensible world.” – Plato

Striated forms
Smooth becomings
Complex tableau

The metal stand striates the smooth glass plate, carving out a territory and marking it as distinct from the rest of the world.

“The smooth has no form, or rather, it is the form of the formless, the line of flight that tears across forms and territories.” – Gilles Deleuze

Occupied by two
Unlikely companions
Teddy bear and duck

The windshield of a car is a transparent barrier between the sheltered interiority of the vehicle and the open expanse of the road ahead.

“It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.” – Gaston Bachelard

Importance of experience
Directly given
Without assumptions

An invitation to a shared space.

“There is no such thing as space in itself, but only spaces.” ― Henri Bergson

Across bridge
Autumn forest
Experience texture

The bridge itself is a liminal space between two realms, the point at which the real and the aesthetic intersect.

“Art does not imitate reality; it expresses it.” ― Benedetto Croce

Surface immediacy
Without mediation
Impermanence manifestation

The worn paint is a meeting place between the past and the future constantly unfolding.

“The surface is the place where the world becomes manifest.” – Mikel Dufrenne

Attentiveness
Immediate vivacity
Attuned to the particular

The cultivation of sensible cognition is essential for a full and balanced understanding of the world.

“Sensible cognition is the apprehension of the particular, while intellectual cognition is the apprehension of the universal.” – Immanuel Kant