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Ways of Perceiving5
Sam Furness

The only true voyage of discovery, the only fountain of Eternal Youth, would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the un

A quote worth repeating: “We are a landscape of all we have seen.” This quote by the Japanese-American artist Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988) is a reminder

CITIZEN OF CURIOSITY2
Sam Furness
IMAGINE1
Sam Furness
Letters6
Sam Furness
Importance of Mystery1
Sam Furness
Collective curiosity3
Sam Furness

The Multiplier Effect of Collective Curiosity

Reconceptualizing curiosity as a practice of epistemic connection and the curious subject as essentially embedded in relations prompts a deepening ana

MAPS4
Sam Furness

There are no maps to guide our most important searches; we must rely on hope, chance, intuition, and a willingness to be surprised.

there is evidently a mounting problem about the gap between people’s urge to experience wild and open spaces, and their ability to cope when they actu

SCULPTURE4
Sam Furness

“Our fingers are our tools” was an instruction Josef Albers gave to students before inviting them to explore simple materials like straw, corrugated c

This intermingling of art and life was central to Hepworth. Just as she lived with nature so she lived with her sculptures: “It’s lovely to live with

Whenever I drive through the countryside and up the hills, I imagine forms placed in situations of natural beauty and I wish more could be done about

“I the sculptor am the landscape”

MOVING8
Sam Furness

As the great Harry Belafonte famously said, “When the music is strong, the movement is strong.”

“There is a secret bond between slowness and memory, between speed and forgetting.A man is walking down the street. At a certain moment, he tries to r

When we walk in the world we connect to our surroundings, on a basic level our feet tread the paths that many have taken before, looking from afar we

Magic0
Sam Furness
LIGHT1
Sam Furness

Lastly, because I'm in this emailing you mode right now -- I was working in a banana plantation yesterday out of sheer fun/curiosity before I become a

Exploring the unknown3
Sam Furness

"Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. The very cave you are afraid to enter turns out to be the source of what you are looking for. The damned

“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn't uncertainty. It's openness, curiosity , a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose sides.” Tony Sch

POETRY1
Sam Furness
The World is Your Studio0
Sam Furness
Things to come back to when I’m feeling meh1
Sam Furness

"I was waiting for something extraordinary to happen, but as the years wasted on, nothing ever did unless I caused it.” —Charles Bukowski