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Eye and Mind
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.
