Sunday, December 31, 2023

oosjert / EZE, 2023

 


Asemic Engagement with Ab-Sen(c/s)e / EZE, 2023

Asemic Engagement with Ab-Sen(c/s)e


Notes on the Aesthetics of Merleau-Ponty


Klee on the Unseen


Merleau-Ponty formulates with remarkable precision the primary ontological theme: "What is proper to the visible [le propre du visible] is to have a layer of an invisible in the strict sense, which it renders present as a certain absence." It is this occult, secluded layer of invisibility that painting renders visible, that—in the words of Klee that Merleau-Ponty pieces together—painting annexes to the visible. It is because of painting’s engagement with this invisibility, which, while of the visible, also lies outside the realm of visible things, that Merleau-Ponty is led finally to what he calls the ontological formula of painting. The formula consists of words, written by Klee in 1916, that were inscribed on his tomb. They bespeak painting’s engagement beyond the here and now of visible things. Merleau-Ponty cites them in French translation: "Je suis insaisissable dan l’immanence." In Klee’s German the formula reads, "Diesseitig bin ich gar nicht fassbar" ("I cannot be at all grasped on this side, in the here and now"). [from "Freeing the Line" by John Sallis in Merleau-Ponty at the Limits of Art, Religion, and Perception]

signs and wonders

Asemics opens up the invisible as instantiations of meaning and of unmeaning, this, where the invisible reveals itself as statistical possibilities and as gap between.


On Eye and Mind

Seen and Not Seen






Thinking the Visible 

Making Science and Engineering Pictures

Spur to Interpretation



Saturday, December 23, 2023

The Words of the Prophets Are Not Words

 


Jeff Crouch's excellent words for my photo.... and would like to point out its similarity to Helix Nebula (photo NASA) for your end of year solar holiday....