Daybook

Eyes are not the window to the soul, nor are eyes mirrors of the soul. Eyes are not the accessory of mind.

Rather, eyes are the temple of the soul. Eyes govern our vision, unite our bodily senses, give texture to our experience of the world.

Sharp vision makes receptive mind and refines perception to nuances.

Seeing is touching. Seeing is feeling.

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The eyes think through sensing, attentive or peripheral. The thinking of eyes is an activity without action, a process independent of linguistic reasoning. It is not an instinctual physical output.

Eyes inform and summarize what we know and what we yet to know through our direct engagement with the world. It is knowing without knowing, which means knowing through primordial experience than knowing through the post-analysis of intellect or linguistic means.

Seeing is knowing. Seeing is the key to the creation of meaning.

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An artist who thinks with eyes thinks through his/her body and expression-medium, which shapes his/her experience and conceptual making of the world in which meaning and value live and grow.

Mind is an embodied phenomenon.

The language of memory does not conform to verbal language.

It does not rely on linear logic to mediate and relate.

It is a map without measure, a story without before and after. It is a history told simultaneously.

Among the seemingly random chaos, each thread is both the beginning and an end of the other.

Wander about in the universe of memory, blindfolded, led by the invisible hands of threads, I sense, smell and hear better – a receptive being.

As the body of threads begin to shift and move me from here to there, east to west, right to left, back and forth, it weaves me into a structure through which a particular memory suddenly takes form. It, however, takes form visually like the sun rises above the horizon, an instantaneous illumination.

Like a photographer and a painter, I “see” the totality of my thought emerges out of the invisible moving hands of threads that bestow meaning to the elements of a memory – that smile, this frown or that gaze – through their inter-spatial relationship within the woven structure.