Mundus Est Fabula
The World is a Story
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We exist in a moment of nested holons, a richly layered and deeply woven webwork of intermingled concepts that are inextricably linked together through their contextual fabric. Every thought, every idea is born from the contexts that surround it, like expanding bubbles emerging from the historicity of the global unconscious, or effervescences within the primordial ooze.
The mind does not simply reflect truth, but rather extracts it from the ongoing process involving the collision and merging of ideas, to paraphrase Herbart, and it is these collisions and mergings that happen within the ineffable mindspace that is unique to ourselves while simultaneously being interwoven to everything and everyone around us, the ultimate macrocosm and microcosm of thought. We all share in a knowledge of certain histories, of certain ideas, of the past and present. We all participate in the media in varying forms and we all can look at a cow and recognize what it is. It is because of our shared understanding of contexts that we are able to relate in these facets of the mind and it is these contexts that are infinitely embedded downward through time, upward through the future and existing all at this exact moment.
Each thought coalesces from this contextual fractal, like the tip of a crystalline structure that blooms into existence, forging the way before it too is encapsulated into another layer of its growth. There is an ordering out of chaos, an organizational system of interactive complexities that play and tease the kaleidoscopic universe into revealing its intuitive geometries.
What we know then, is what we understand and what we understand we do because of the contextual framework that supports it, the after affect of checks and balances that were checked and balanced against the contexts that root any idea to its place. Nothing is a singularity, except perhaps a black hole, or is it, but then I digress.
The popsicle stick to this growing tomato plant of nested contextual holons is humankind’s need to tell stories. Our stories, our myths, whether they are from Ancient Egypt, Meso-America, Tibet, Africa, Wall Street or Scientific American, act as the mythic spider that weaves these strings, these ideas into contextual form. Stories create a contextual continuum, forever creating the expanding universe we see unfolding between each blink of an eye.
Mundus Est Fabula: The World is a Story
Oil and egg tempera on canvas, crochet, faux fur
81” x 91”
In private collection.
Here is this week’s instructional painting video. It’s a short one:
My upcoming in-person painting workshop is happening at the end of September. I’d love to see you there. We will dive into the Mische Technique with a visionary self-portrait. I’d love to see you there!
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