art

Ray Ascott: “Stop thinking about artworks as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.”

You will fail, because every attempt fails.

The point is not to succeed.

It is to change gears. To remember that we are not consumers but co-creators of reality.

Shakespeare, lived at the border between the seen and unseen, and spent his life giving voice to the relationship between them. Time and again, his plays—I’m thinking especially of The Winter’s Tale , The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream —tell us that art is the mediating link between the realms, and thus in some way more real, because more... See more

what do you do when your consciousness is wide enough that powerful new marriages of form and formlessness are ever presenting themselves inside you?

You express them.

You create something that reflects this encounter, and which in many ways is truer than the rock it sits on, because it attempts to convey what’s beyond the rock, too—and because it... See more

Art is how we reintegrate our deep weirdness with our intellectual rigour.

Art is how we safely expand and rebalance the consciousness contract.

Art is how we honour the ineffable and unquantifiable dimensions of reality—bring them into the fleshy realm—without sliding into relativism or superstition or the dangerous predations of conspirituality.