Dear readers,
Having shown you two Things on two Walls over the past two days, I realised I was not on the path towards fully understanding wall, and therefore could not transfer any fresh thought on the concept wall to you. I was failing both as a philosopher and as an artist.
The things I had noticed earlier were not even part of wall; they were on or in a wall, and so did not make up wall per se.
Wall as an object, and as a concept, went largely unnoticed.
I did not feel I had fully reached Proof of Wall. The photos did show some of the actual constituent things of wall, but apart from the ever present distraction-of-other-things, I also felt I was focussing too much on analysis, where synthesis, the painstakingly fleshing out of the concept wall by aggregating the things that make up wall, as a mental exercise, and then working towards a deeper understanding of the idea of "wall", could well be the best way to gain at least some knowledge of wall.
So I decided it might be fruitful to collect the things that make up a wall in my mind and move from analysis to synthesis, by taking a more generalised, or even, dare I say it, holistic approach.
One might even describe it as getting the bricks into place to gain access to the inner wall.
Here is the photo I took for illustrating this. It shows various things, certainly, but somehow, the first thought that comes to mind when seeing this is: "wall".
The synthesis is almost instantaneous; the individual parts, however diverse, and of diverse origin, they may be, are seen later, if at all, as it were:
Even though the wall that was photographed in the making of this photo predates the Dutch artistic movement called De Stijl by centuries, there are clearly aspects here that hint forward to, nay, predict the later work of Piet Mondriaan himself.
This unexpected insight gives me confidence I am on the right artistic track with my new-found synthetic framework. The potential application landscape supported by this framework is yet to be explored, but the possibilities for new knowledge seem endless.
And now, over to you. How do you feel about wall? What part does wall play in your lives? Do you still consciously observe wall and the things therein, or has wall become a rarely noticed feature in your surroundings that is mostly ignored until you run into one?
Thank you for your attention.