The Meaning Code | To See the World in a Grain of Sand: Vanitas and Viriditas, Rationalism and Sophia @TheMeaningCode | Uploaded June 2023 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
Josh Tiessen joins for a second episode looking at art as a vehicle for meaning and for understanding reality and the cosmos.
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Auguries of Innocence (from William Blake's poem, To See the World in a Grain of Sand)
Moon moth and the fleeting glimpse of beauty
Refracting Infinity, Blaise Pascal, a shadow that returns no more
The sunflower, the golden ratio
Disenchantment of the natural world due to modernity
Art critics in New York speaking of people's newfound search for deeper meaning
Jonah and the whale - going into the depths, searching for meaning
Pondering mortality and the limits of knowledge
Kierkegaard v. Hegel, to take a leap of faith with fear and trembling
Memento Mori - a decentering of his ego to find God
Creation cathedral, ask the animals and they will teach you, the life of every one (Book of Job)
Painting the visual order that's in the chaos
The 5 G cell tower - a modern tree of knowledge
Entertaining ourselves to oblivion
The ferret trials - animal testing and vivisection
Greening Power - the source of all vitality and growth
The Kairos stones - traversing time with stone circles
Medievals had a multidimensional approach to time (Charles Taylor)
Greening the White Cube
In This Birch Grove by Nikolay Zabolotsky
A portion of In this birch grove..., translated by Daniel Weissbort
"In this birch grove, / Far removed from trouble and pain, / Where the pink, unwavering light / Of morning pulsates in the heavens..."
A soft answer turns away wrath
Pursue Peace
The doorway, Esther Nightcap Meek:
"It beckons us deeper into the heart of the real. It is pregnant with promise. A doorway suggests as well that we hold in tension the here and near, where we are, and the beyond. All this is why doorway is such a rich motif as we consider thoughtful artistry."
Josh Tiessen joins for a second episode looking at art as a vehicle for meaning and for understanding reality and the cosmos.
joshtiessen.com
Auguries of Innocence (from William Blake's poem, To See the World in a Grain of Sand)
Moon moth and the fleeting glimpse of beauty
Refracting Infinity, Blaise Pascal, a shadow that returns no more
The sunflower, the golden ratio
Disenchantment of the natural world due to modernity
Art critics in New York speaking of people's newfound search for deeper meaning
Jonah and the whale - going into the depths, searching for meaning
Pondering mortality and the limits of knowledge
Kierkegaard v. Hegel, to take a leap of faith with fear and trembling
Memento Mori - a decentering of his ego to find God
Creation cathedral, ask the animals and they will teach you, the life of every one (Book of Job)
Painting the visual order that's in the chaos
The 5 G cell tower - a modern tree of knowledge
Entertaining ourselves to oblivion
The ferret trials - animal testing and vivisection
Greening Power - the source of all vitality and growth
The Kairos stones - traversing time with stone circles
Medievals had a multidimensional approach to time (Charles Taylor)
Greening the White Cube
In This Birch Grove by Nikolay Zabolotsky
A portion of In this birch grove..., translated by Daniel Weissbort
"In this birch grove, / Far removed from trouble and pain, / Where the pink, unwavering light / Of morning pulsates in the heavens..."
A soft answer turns away wrath
Pursue Peace
The doorway, Esther Nightcap Meek:
"It beckons us deeper into the heart of the real. It is pregnant with promise. A doorway suggests as well that we hold in tension the here and near, where we are, and the beyond. All this is why doorway is such a rich motif as we consider thoughtful artistry."
