dialogue

Nature and the representation to the senses (the empirical world), presents a picture of reality in its totality manifested to the self's subjectivity. This picture is like an eternal river flowing - at times rapid and chaotic, at other times peaceful and serene. As inhabitants (as creatures) with the innate ability to consciously understand and know our place in the river, view nature from the perspective of a single drop of water. The ever changing continuum appears to the conscious self as a process for growth and understanding. "I am", as the self emerges from a nothingness towards the All of life-living.

Past and future converge for a moment of awareness sacred and holy, a subtle existence as a being conscious of its ability to apprehend. The river of life, at times can be comprehended from the perspective of the self, viewing its world as a manifestation of its subjectivity (phenomena), and at other times as objective nature without the view towards any single perspective. Between these two lenses emerges the purpose and telos - the unification of these two views - to systematically and artistically represent the process in its life-living - an aesthetic practice - a choice/duty to transcend and go beyond the confines of the darkness for the light of rationality and pure identity.

The nothingness of the self parallels the isolation of the self from the world of nature as a mind and intellect living as a being beyond what phenomenal appearance can transmit. Interpretation is the becoming of the self as a being in its artistic authenticity.

The self beckons the other by asking the question of identity: "where are you"? 

The thou of life emerges - "Here I am"!