"Essence and existence, imaginary and real, visible and invisible - painting scrambles all our categories, spreading out before us its oneiric universe of carnal essences, actualized resemblances, mute meanings...How crystal clear everything would be in our philosophy if only we would exorcise these specters, make illusions or objectless perceptions out of them, brush them to one side of an unequivocal world!"
Johnson, Galen A. Merleau-Ponty Aesthetics Reader: Philosophy and Painting (Spep). Northwestern University Press, 1994. Pg. 130
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Perceptions are illusions. The moment something is interpreted through a channel, a machine, our eyes, nose, sensories organs, there are biases and subjectivities cast on that interpretation. What we need to do is take helm of these interfaces, understand their functions and how they relate to our psyche. We'd enable new ways of expriences and storytelling.
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