100 Objects
Musings on art, culture, life, and humanity at the edge of tomorrow.
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Interlude: The Discipline of Whimsy (opens the original)
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When I decided to write about 100 Objects I knew I would include items that might not traditionally or even categorically be considered objects. The word is shorthand for a discrete concentration of substance with definable boundaries in time and space, be they real or abstract. They are physical or theoretical vessels for interpretation, occupied or occupiable volumes consisting of unique aesthetic conditions and philosophical considerations. In other words, “objects” with the emphasis on the a
10_Frederic Edwin Church’s Rainy Season in the Tropics (1866) (opens the original)
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Permanence is a risky delusion, a gullible proclamation, a celestially offensive assumption. The only thing that lasts forever is forever. Forever is the divine. The endless question behind the stretch of space.It was in a bit of death that I woke from my control. The dark blanket of pretend I used to fend off variables lifted like a magic trick. This small death of person, of a role and title no longer mine, taught me to have faith again. Not the faith of my father or my youth, or my country, o
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