Tuesday, February 26, 2008 chair.
Monday, February 25, 2008
plato's dollroom allegory.
(mixed media on canvas)
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
ideas- plato's dollroom allegory.
Reflections on Plato’s cave allegory.
Prisoners shackled into a fixed position, unable to even turn their heads, for all of their lives. Fire (source of light) behind them. They see shadows- their only certainty, and perceive it to be ‘truth’.
We, bound to this mass of land (surface of earth), and what we see becomes our reality and ‘truths’. But what we are seeing is actually ‘shadows’, like that in the cave.
It would be a fallacy to label ‘shadows’ as illusions, since shadow is a real and grounded phenomenon which is revealed through the ‘source’. The ‘source’ is thus what we call ‘the light’.
What we can see or revealed to us on a normal basis are shrouded in semi-unhiddeness- of half-truths. It is reality, but not yet reality. It serves as a hint to the ‘source’ that reveals it.
Everything is thus an effect of truth.
Monday, February 18, 2008
wonderland.
Saturday, February 16, 2008
the mall.
(oil on canvas)
Friday, February 15, 2008
ideas- the mall
