Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development,
invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
- Edgar Allen Poe
« July 2023 | Main | December 2023 »
October 2023
October 29, 2023
October 26, 2023
Arrest of Attention
I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.
A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm.
I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.
– Saul Bellow
October 17, 2023
Reconnecting Us
From a recent article in the NY TIMES by physicist Carlo Rovelli:
"I think that this is also how the best art works. Science and art are both concerned with the continual reorganization of our conceptual space, of what we call meaning. What happens when we react to a work of art is not happening in the art object itself, of course — still less in some unphysical “world of the spirit.” It lies in the complexity of our brain, in the kaleidoscopic network of analogical relationships with which our neurons weave what we call meaning.
We are involved, engaged — for this takes us out of our habitual sleepwalking, reconnecting us with the joy of seeing something anew in the world."
October 07, 2023
More Beautiful
"I swear to you, there are divine things more beautiful than words can tell."
– Walt Whitman