It’s the last day of the first month of the new year, and I woke up early, tore apart my mirrorworld, and started fresh. Though conceptually I feel like my ideas are coming together, the images aren’t yet what I’ve been hoping for. How about you? How did your month go? This week I’m exploringContinue reading “Contradictory Abstractions: The Synthesis of Beauty and Ugliness”
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Dialectic Thinking and the Study of Contradictory Abstractions
Last week, while thinking about the first of my new calls to action “To find the truth in deceit and the deceit in truth; either deceive the truth, or unveil the deceit” (I now think reveal works better than unveil), the idea of deceiving truth, along with the blues songs I’ve been studying, got meContinue reading “Dialectic Thinking and the Study of Contradictory Abstractions”
Expanding the Study of Contradictory Abstractions
Not Just Nouns Anymore While reading The Linchpin Writer by John Matthew Fox, I came across this interesting sentence: “You should use your descriptions to do one of two things: to either defamiliarize the familiar, or to familiarize the unfamiliar. “ The form of that sentence, with its contradictions, reminded me of “find the despairContinue reading “Expanding the Study of Contradictory Abstractions”
Experience Writing 