Art should question the very nature of the mind that contemplates it.
“Learn how not to die” and reversible destiny-deal with the fundamental nature of the relationship between us and the thing we call the world around us. The greatest part of our experience, and therefore the course of our destiny, is lost to a habitual and deadening lack of understanding of our experience in the world.
The mind is not isolate from the body. The body thinks, forms conclusions about-and becomes connected to-its surroundings, and sets the terms of our understanding long before we can rationalize our experience in reflective thought.
First, our bodies as architectural bodies think as our minds (which becomes abundantly clear in our experience).
Second, the world is not given but formed by us: a body lives in a reciprocal relation with its surroundings; the effect of change (positive and negative) on the world by us-and our perceptions of it-are indisputable.
The nature of meaning is embedded not in any compendium of knowledge, but in each person’s active engagement with the world. Meaning is not arbitrary, but it is individual; each individual, each person, is a “mechanism of meaning.”
“I might live there, in a continual state of deja vu as I experience a repetition of slightly differing perceptions. Yet, I will be involved in a constant critique of my own experience. I will see. I will live. Perhaps for the first time.”
