Windows on the world
My camera shutters
open
a window
on the world.
The lens
frames
a foreground
object
which is itself
a frame
for something
beyond.
This is how
we humans see;
bounded by our own
perspective
yet able
still to see
beyond.
That something
beyond
is the hint
and glimpse
of possibility,
the something
more,
something
different,
the excess
which Ricoeur
sees
as our being,
our human being,
as constant change,
as constantly
becoming
who we are.
Through
free imaginative
variation
Husserl suggested
we can
vary the
form, colour,
material and uses
of an object
in our mind
and by
comparing
what is common
to these
different
possibilities
determine
its essence.
Adam
utilised this
possibility
method
when naming
the animals
in Eden;
after
identifying
the essence
of each animal
in naming
them
he knew
that none
could be
his soulmate
so knew
he needed
Eve.
Different
perspectives
produce
new ways of
seeing,
thinking,
imagining,
being;
living
creatively,
living
artistically,
we know
ourselves
to be
possibility
beings,
creative
children
of creative
being.
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Moby - Wait For Me.
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