A Visual Journey Through the "Metaphysical Light"

INTRODUCTION An Interactive Journey Personal StoryTelling in the New Millennium Luminous Reflections Personal Work as a Catharsis HISTORICAL CONTEXT New Ancient Worlds To "Know" Someone Presuppositions of the Modern Mind The Subjective Eye The Narrative as Selective Thought Transporting Living Memories to the Future The Light of the Sacred Box Cyber-salvation RESEARCH Survivors of the Shoah Steven Spielberg (Interactive Website) Critical Mass: Corbis Beyond the Wall Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment The Complete Maus Art Spiegelman The Day After Trinity: Voyager Truths and Fictions: Pedro Meyer Lebuse’s Letters Robert Linehan The Hiroshima Project Akke Wagenaar Zenith’s Epoch Jessica Helfand The Songlines Anna Thomas Witness Beliz Brother THEORY Scientific Optics Light’s Measure Colored Perceptions How Light Interacts with Objects The Physiology and Culture of Light Mystical Emanation TheLightning Flash Anatomy of Light Anthropomorphic Scheme of Mind and Body Light as Allegory Light as Historical Oral Tradition Emanation of the PIXEL An Extension of Vision Assembling Fragments of Pixel Light

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A Visual Journey Through the "Metaphysical Light" of the Pixel/Personal StoryTelling in the New Millennium

My thesis is about a private visual journey through the light of the pixel, not the journey through physical light that shines and is transmitted through the human eye but the "metaphysical light" that emanates from the light of each pixel to yield a supernal attraction and awakening. This use of the "light" of the pixel is the cornerstone to understanding my theory. What I have aimed for is an understanding of what it means to think, feel, respond and act according to the light that emanates from the pixel. It is not possible to confirm what I affirm. You may arrive at some knowledge of what stirred my imagination--of the ideas by which I was moved by a particular moment; but you cannot prove the realities and events which preceded these moments. The process employed in my inquiry for gaining such insight was the method of pure observation and reflection. The act of sheer observation of what we face everyday in this technological quagmire, serves to introduce us to the realness of the phenomenon, and sharpen an ability to formulate questions conducive to the discovery of what is unique about our culture in this particular unsteady time. Indeed, it requires much effort to learn which questions should be asked and which claims should be entertained. What impairs our sight are the habits of seeing as well as the mental "contaminates" of seeing. Our sight is suffused with knowing, instead of feeling painfully the lack of knowing what we see.

The principle to be kept in mind is to "know" what we see rather than see what we know. One must forget many cliches in order to behold a single image. Insight is the beginning of perceptions to come rather than an extension of perceptions gone by. Conventional seeing operates within patterns; it is a way of seeing the present in the past tense. Insight is an attempt to think in the present. This particular insight into the light of the pixel requires much intellectual dismantling and dislocation. It begins with the cultivation of the unfamiliar. It is being involved with the phenomena, being infinitely engaged by it, counting it, that after much thought we come upon insight by way of seeing the phenomenon within. Insight is accompanied by a sense of surprise. What has been closed is suddenly disclosed, what is invisible becomes visible.

To comprehend my theory, it is more important that you think in detachment, to suspend indifference and be involved. To examine the essence of what I’m saying requires a process of reflection. Reducing my idea of light or insight of the pixel to a dead or naive subject deprives it of the power to affect you, to listen to my theory is to transcend your own attitudes and preconceptions. To understand any artist you must think as if you were inside their mind. Their existence involves us. Unless their concern strikes us, pains us, exalts us, we do not really sense it. Such involvement requires receptivity, hearing and sheer surrender.