an attempt to “fix this continuous flux”

 

 

 

 

 

 

“Life is a continuous flux and we seek to arrest it…

 

 

 

 

 

 

The forms in ourselves by which we seek to arrest and fix this continuous flux are the concepts and ideals which we would like to keep consistent, all the pretenses we create, the conditions, the state in which we endeavor to stabilize ourselves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

But inside ourselves, in what we call the soul, which is the center of our lives, the flux continues, indistinct, sliding under the barriers we have set up, beyond the limits we have imposed,

 

 

 

 

fashioning a consciousness and constructing a personality for us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At certain violent moments, assailed by the flux, all our make-believe forms crumble miserably;

 

 

 

 

and even what does not slither under the barriers and beyond the limits, even what is clearly a part of us…overflows in certain moments of fullness

 

 

 

 

and throws everything into confusion.”

Excerpt from L’Umorismo (Humour) by Luigi Pirandello, 1908

 

 

 

in other words,

 

"Cogito ergo nescio certe."
I think, therefore I don't know for sure.

 

“This world is more of a mental than a physical one” –Prof. Carney

 

 

featured artists: ray caesar, kim asendorf, mathew borrett and sculptures by benjamin shine