Walking In My Mind, Stephanie Rosenthal. Hayward Gallery 2009
At last we could talk about and investigate mental imagery, subjectivity, imagination and creativity. At last scientists could tackle the mystery of consciousness without being laughed at.
Mysteries Of The Mind, Susan Blackmore.
Between The Microcosm And The Macrocosm, Mami Kataoka.
A Field Guide To Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit.
The Blue of Distance
The world is blue at its edges and its depths. This blue is the light that got lost. Light at the blue end of the spectrum does not travel the whole distance from the sun to us. It disperses among the molecules of the air, it scatters in water. Water is colourless, shallow water appears to be the colour of whatever lies underneath it, but deep water is full of this scattered light, the purer the water the deeper the blue. The sky is blue for the same reason, but the blue at the horizon, the blue of land that seems to be dissolving into the sky, is a deeper, dreamier, melancholy blue, the blue at the farthest reaches of the places where you see for miles, the blue of distance.
This light that does not touch us, does not travel the whole distance, the light gets lost, gives us the beauty of the world, so much of which is in the colour blue.
Celestial Crater
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