A few koan-like insights on art, nature, seeing and thinking:
Art is not what we see; it is in the spaces between.
–Marcel Duchamp
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Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.
Only thought can resemble. It resembles by being what it sees, hears, or knows; it becomes what the world offers it.
–René Magritte (1898-1967)
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Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye —it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
–Edvard Munch (1863-1944)
duchamp was a champ in being “in the spaces between”…
A long time ago, right before a trip to the UK, a wise friend told me to be sure to visit the innumerable menhirs and stone circles. “And don’t just look at the stones,” she said, “be sure to look at everything around them as well.” That was sort of life changing advice.
Ah, “the spaces between” the interval between perception and thought, between objects and their surroundings, between sound and silence – there are magical worlds to be found there. So true. G
Is this what Rachel Whiteread meant too?
G, yes–the interval between, that infinite domain.
E, Perfect example. Whiteread’s work is sometimes dizzying in its shift in point of view.