Local image #81
2024, Acylic on board, 30x30cm
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Water lies on, covering, red-hot lava, steaming, boiling, bubbling fire and water. What happens when they touch? How do they react? How do they disintegrate each other? Water turns into gas; lava turns solid — transformation.
I have never been able to wrap my head around flame. Does flame consist of atoms? Is there a flame particle? If not, then what is it? Time — are there time particles? Thoughts — are there thought particles? The thing that happens between me and the art object, let's call it the aesthetic — are there aesthetic particles? Am I an aesthetic retard? Absolutely, yes. But at least I am trying to do something about it.
The aesthetic runs quite deep; it is close to the bottom layer for humans. Aesthetics is the dialectic between our minds and our senses that creates an image of reality. We cut up reality into categories to form an image of reality. Some of us have finer categories, more nuanced categories that are more commensurate with the field of reality. Some of us have coarser categories — simpler and faster but infested with high levels of delusion.
Do thinkers tend to develop fine category systems, while doers tend to opt for simple and fast but coarse category systems? Let's for a moment pretend that this is actually the case universally. Who is more important? What is more important — the kite or the string? Do thinkers and doers fight a lot, or do they respect each other and work together, playing their parts, playing their roles, being the pieces of the puzzle they were meant to be? Conflict, tension, cooperation, flow. Altogether now. Thinkers need doers; doers need thinkers.
Our minds are the apparatus designed to communicate with the spiritual realm. Our minds are portals, gates. An open mind is open to all spiritual influence, sometimes or often, even to possession — both good and bad. God has the most advanced aesthetic, the perfect aesthetic, as reality flows from him. He is the only entity that has the ability to judge good and bad truly. We are far from being able to do that. Just being aware of that makes for much headway.
The physical manifestation, the physical tool, the physical mass, the physical object that manifests our minds, that holds our minds in this reality, that ports our minds in this reality, is mainly the brain. A spirit needs a physical body with a mind to move anything in the physical part of reality. A physical body's powers extend and are limited to space, time, and scale. Depending on its design, it is limited to moving things up to a certain scale and down to a certain scale. Physical reality, as defined by Newton, extends only to a certain range; it ceases to apply beyond a large horizon, a small horizon, and a time horizon.
We know enough now, apparently, to quantify our ignorance of this universe. About 96% is unknown to us. (ref: Neil deGrasse Tyson). The more one knows, the more one can sense how much one doesn’t know. (ref: Neil deGrasse Tyson)
I have never been able to wrap my head around flame. Does flame consist of atoms? Is there a flame particle? If not, then what is it? Time — are there time particles? Thoughts — are there thought particles? The thing that happens between me and the art object, let's call it the aesthetic — are there aesthetic particles? Am I an aesthetic retard? Absolutely, yes. But at least I am trying to do something about it.
The aesthetic runs quite deep; it is close to the bottom layer for humans. Aesthetics is the dialectic between our minds and our senses that creates an image of reality. We cut up reality into categories to form an image of reality. Some of us have finer categories, more nuanced categories that are more commensurate with the field of reality. Some of us have coarser categories — simpler and faster but infested with high levels of delusion.
Do thinkers tend to develop fine category systems, while doers tend to opt for simple and fast but coarse category systems? Let's for a moment pretend that this is actually the case universally. Who is more important? What is more important — the kite or the string? Do thinkers and doers fight a lot, or do they respect each other and work together, playing their parts, playing their roles, being the pieces of the puzzle they were meant to be? Conflict, tension, cooperation, flow. Altogether now. Thinkers need doers; doers need thinkers.
Our minds are the apparatus designed to communicate with the spiritual realm. Our minds are portals, gates. An open mind is open to all spiritual influence, sometimes or often, even to possession — both good and bad. God has the most advanced aesthetic, the perfect aesthetic, as reality flows from him. He is the only entity that has the ability to judge good and bad truly. We are far from being able to do that. Just being aware of that makes for much headway.
The physical manifestation, the physical tool, the physical mass, the physical object that manifests our minds, that holds our minds in this reality, that ports our minds in this reality, is mainly the brain. A spirit needs a physical body with a mind to move anything in the physical part of reality. A physical body's powers extend and are limited to space, time, and scale. Depending on its design, it is limited to moving things up to a certain scale and down to a certain scale. Physical reality, as defined by Newton, extends only to a certain range; it ceases to apply beyond a large horizon, a small horizon, and a time horizon.
We know enough now, apparently, to quantify our ignorance of this universe. About 96% is unknown to us. (ref: Neil deGrasse Tyson). The more one knows, the more one can sense how much one doesn’t know. (ref: Neil deGrasse Tyson)