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Inner and outer purpose have not merged
“Many people who are going through the early stages of the awakening process are no longer certain what their outer purpose is. What drives the […]
Proto Abstraction in Photography
Proto Abstraction What I call ‘proto abstraction’ can, as the name implies, be considered a way-stage on the road to abstraction proper. It typically depicts […]
Urge to abstraction: order and regularity
The art historian, Wilhelm Worringer, wrote a dissertation in 1906, which became his famous Abstraction and Empathy. […] Worringer stated that modern aesthetics was based […]
The annihilation that is prerequisite to rebirth
“The individual … no longer resists the annihilation that is prerequisite to rebirth in the realization of truth, and so becomes ripe, at last, for […]
Let us learn to play
“Freud was right in linking play and phantasy, but he was surely wrong in believing that play and phantasy should be abandoned in favour of […]
It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall
“It is not upon you alone the dark patches fall,The dark threw its patches down upon me also,The best I had done seem’d to me […]
Misfits to whom the art of life and the art of love are foreign
“[Herman] Hesse’s pre-1917 heroes [in his novels] are made of soft stuff. They are predominantly esthetes who live only in dreams, hopes and anticipation, and […]
Yes and No
What is a rebel? A man who says no, but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation. He is also a man who says yes, […]
Fear gone like an operation. Something else grew in its place.
“It had started the night before when he had wakened and heard the lion roaring somewhere up along the river. It was a deep sound […]
