#transendence

[creature-today]

creature of the day

[mosscollector]

Kandinsky claims that a circle of yellow will seem to ooze from its center and even warmly approach us, while a similar circle of blue ‘moves into itself, like a snail retreating into its shell, and draws away from the spectator. The eye feels stung by the first circle while it is absorbed into the second’ (Concerning the Spiritual in Art). Yellow cannot readily ingest gray. It clamors for white. But blue will swallow black like a bell swallows silence ‘to echo a grief that is hardly human.’ Because blue contracts, retreats, it is the color of transcendence, leading us away in pursuit of the infinite. From infra-red to ultra-violet, the long waves sink and the short waves rise. ‘Just as orange is red brought nearer to humanity by yellow, so violet is red withdrawn from humanity by blue.’

William H. Gass, On Being Blue

[mvaljean525]

I plucked my soul out of its secret place, And held it to the mirror of my eye, To see it like a star against the sky, A twitching body quivering in space, A spark of passion shining on my face. And I explored it to determine why This awful key to my infinity Conspires to rob me of sweet joy and grace. And if the sign may not be fully read, If I can comprehend but not control, I need not gloom my days with futile dread, Because I see a part and not the whole. Contemplating the strange, I’m comforted By this narcotic thought: I know my soul.

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I Know My Soul

Claude McKay 1889–1948

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Graphic - John Jude Palencar (B.1957)

[livebythemoonseclipse]

karmä encirclês -::- @earthtowildrose .com

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[ksanzo]

Alex Grey inspired eye mandala. Might make stickers of this. #psychadelic #mandala #eye #10000days #art #illustration #transendence #thirdeye #design #mindbodyspirit #mind #instart #instaart #artistsofinstagram #ksanzo

[thequintessenceofathunderbi-blog]

The face of all the life he brought to, on screen.

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