Believing landscapes to be mysterious aggregations, it becomes ...
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Believing landscapes to be mysterious aggregations, it becomes ...
LANDSCAPE
The Surrealist landscape was not a naturalistic landscape but rather one of the psyche-an internal exploration rather than a perceptual pursuit of nature. Their landscapes often reflected the uncanny, an elusive imagery of dreams, myth, and fantasy. And as such, they tapped into a different source than mere perceptual landscapes.
Claudia Dawson and added
- Experientially, received within one’s own quiet subjectivity, it appears as an allusive aliveness, a meaning presenting itself in “glimpses and visions,” a foretaste or reminder of a higher order of being to which the human heart actually belongs and to and from which it responds, with infinite tug. The imaginal nudges us, beacons us, corrects us a... See more
from Introducing the Imaginal — Cynthia Bourgeault
Stuart Evans and added
- We need the presence of mystery in the same way that the coherence and beauty of a landscape require the presence of a horizon, whether as a line defining the field of vision or as a dark boundary that gives sharper definition to the world that is illuminated. Or as language needs the refreshment of silence. We need a sense of communion with that w... See more
from Mystery by the hedgehog review
Keely Adler added