![]() But her invitation is to fullness of potential, not to belief in some new theory of the system of organization of forms.Īrt like this, precisely engineered to work the way it does, inspires awe even just as you’re imagining the numbers involved. The last word in this poem is “entelechy” which is probably not surprising- Berssenbrugge is considering forms and the perception of forms. Then everything constellates out to the farthest star.īy Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge, A Treatise on Stars Seeing, a kind of consciousness, materializes form. World's a net of relations in which appearance is one to correlate the visible with the personal makes it real. There's joy in transmuting a supernova into science and wonder, at the same time. We've powerful analytic tools to simplify an experience, so we can absorb it emotionally. The poet and social reformer Rabindranath Tagore wrote “The main object of teaching is not to explain meanings, but to knock at the door of the mind.” You are here So he starts with light itself and reaches into the mind to expose the limits and viscosities of perception. In the gallery guide, the curators mention Turrell’s thinking that “in a way, the human eye-because of its dense neural network links to the brain-is almost like ‘the brain exposed.'” There’s a connection he makes between light, time and perception. I had to wait for the group to finish their Perfectly Clear experience, and, as I was the only person who was late, I got the lightbox to myself. ![]() I got a bit lost in the museum-a complex of industrial buildings converted into art galleries-and so I was one minute late for my scheduled time slot. This phenomenon can in turn produce an array of effects in the brain.” from the MASS MoCA website, James Turrell “Into the Light” Ganzfeld is a German term that describes a uniform or “whole field” which produces a loss of depth perception. As the light changes, viewers watch the boundaries of the space disappear before their eyes as if the room has been shrouded in a cloud of mist. My mission was to experience James Turrell’s “Perfectly Clear (Ganzfeld),” a 15-minute light-experience in which viewers perceive perception itself: “a bath of changing color fills the room, punctuated by periodic bursts of strobing light. That’s a 2.75-hour drive north that I’d been meaning to do for a while. ![]() Last weekend, I drove up to the Berkshires in western Massachusetts to visit MASS MoCA in North Adams, one of the top centers in the international contemporary art scene. It’s the flexible nature of the heart that makes us need contradictions. ![]() Do we count the number of fishermen laughing in January chill along the river while on our Sunday walk, and do we count on the river to carry away our cares? Some part of creative work is idle counting some of it is the core figure of our intention.īut we honor both-exactness and freedom-to keep artistic practice strong, growing, and ever more relevant. Counting syllables, counting on images to carry you, counting the stanzas in the back of your mind, counting on soul to show up in the lines. ![]()
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