philosophy is something I do everyday, to live in awareness, to contemplate, examine and challenge one's perceptions of the world is unavoidable to me. Philosophy and art in this way, when done well, are almost the same things, just usually the medium of conveyance of ideas differ. This page is about writing, one of the most popular mediums for philosophy.
My eyelids sleepy as the dewdrops of morning’s sighs
A breath, a quiver, a memory of silver
Light shafts through a stoney street
Paving pathways to the future
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Flickering Light shimmers from the sun that filters through the trembling pendants of the silver birch. My room alit as if from heaven and eclipsed again in a single instant. A sprig of dried lavender Its scattered beads lie abandoned around like the lonely disordered tombstones of an old grassy graveyard. Throbbing My foot, bathing in a patch of sun warmth landed on the bed like a celestial spaceship, buzzes with the memory of yesterday’s hopeless steps |
" The place we come from, along with the unique eccentricities of our family, our culture and traditions, is what we call home. As we go through life, constantly growing and adapting our lives to our varying needs, certain items, smells, tastes and sounds might bring us back for a moment and remind us of this original home. There is a strong connection between these feelings provoked by memories and our sense of home as where we come from.
The place we come from, along with the unique eccentricities of our family, our culture and traditions, is what we call home.
Encountering new places and forging new relationships, we must accept a changing world, our changing physical selves and our evolving identities. Many of us are uprooted from home, sometimes by choice, sometimes by force, and it is then that we must face the journey of discovering again, or creating anew, a sense of home.
Through these processes it becomes evident that what makes us feel at home, might be much less about physical needs and much more about atmosphere, relationships and feelings of inclusivity, harmony, comfort and belonging. The little actions, objects, words or sounds that can provide that sense of security and familiarity in times of loneliness or alienation are crucial to our understanding of ourselves and our identities. For when we are at home with ourselves we can feel at home with the world and people around us. "
The place we come from, along with the unique eccentricities of our family, our culture and traditions, is what we call home.
Encountering new places and forging new relationships, we must accept a changing world, our changing physical selves and our evolving identities. Many of us are uprooted from home, sometimes by choice, sometimes by force, and it is then that we must face the journey of discovering again, or creating anew, a sense of home.
Through these processes it becomes evident that what makes us feel at home, might be much less about physical needs and much more about atmosphere, relationships and feelings of inclusivity, harmony, comfort and belonging. The little actions, objects, words or sounds that can provide that sense of security and familiarity in times of loneliness or alienation are crucial to our understanding of ourselves and our identities. For when we are at home with ourselves we can feel at home with the world and people around us. "
#tantecose draws its inspiration from the practice of ‘collectionism’, drawing a link between the collection of artworks, and artworks themselves as collections of ideas, objects and materials.
With the Guggenheim Collection, currently showing at Palazzo Strozzi as a starting point in the idea of art collectionism, IED Arts Management Master students have selected works from the students of Fondazione Studio Marangoni, LABA (Libera Accademia di Belle Arti), and Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze to show both how the artists’ may employ collectionism to express their work and how the curator, or indeed collector, gathers and selects artworks in a collection.
As Peggy Guggenheim collected the ‘art of her time’, she was able to delineate and define the outside world’s perception. Her collection became a paradigm of an art collection which was able to influence and exhibit the ideas of the time.
The act of collecting, in either case, involves a selection: a specific choice of one thing, rather than another. #tantecose invites you to explore the nature of this choice: as something deliberate, intentional and rational, or, as more often may seem the case, a more subconscious, emotional or irrational selection, an impulse. In this case, the act of collecting can become a drive, a passionate force, and perhaps an obsession. It is something that is relevant to us all. Each of us, as a person, is a collection of thoughts, experiences, memories. Sometimes we try to realise these, try to substantiate them in order to put our identities into something outside of ourselves.The art of #tantecose is an example of this expression.
With the Guggenheim Collection, currently showing at Palazzo Strozzi as a starting point in the idea of art collectionism, IED Arts Management Master students have selected works from the students of Fondazione Studio Marangoni, LABA (Libera Accademia di Belle Arti), and Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze to show both how the artists’ may employ collectionism to express their work and how the curator, or indeed collector, gathers and selects artworks in a collection.
As Peggy Guggenheim collected the ‘art of her time’, she was able to delineate and define the outside world’s perception. Her collection became a paradigm of an art collection which was able to influence and exhibit the ideas of the time.
The act of collecting, in either case, involves a selection: a specific choice of one thing, rather than another. #tantecose invites you to explore the nature of this choice: as something deliberate, intentional and rational, or, as more often may seem the case, a more subconscious, emotional or irrational selection, an impulse. In this case, the act of collecting can become a drive, a passionate force, and perhaps an obsession. It is something that is relevant to us all. Each of us, as a person, is a collection of thoughts, experiences, memories. Sometimes we try to realise these, try to substantiate them in order to put our identities into something outside of ourselves.The art of #tantecose is an example of this expression.
Here you may find some of the things I have written as part of my Bachelors degree in Classics and Philosophy at the University of Bristol between 2011 and 2014.
1. The Meaning of the Pantheon - Classics dissertation exploring a philosophy and semantic of art and architecture.
Received a 1st class grade.
2. Can justification of our beliefs be provided by an infinite chain of reasons? First ever undergraduate essay in epistemology exploring a resolution to Agrippa's trilemma .
1. The Meaning of the Pantheon - Classics dissertation exploring a philosophy and semantic of art and architecture.
Received a 1st class grade.
2. Can justification of our beliefs be provided by an infinite chain of reasons? First ever undergraduate essay in epistemology exploring a resolution to Agrippa's trilemma .
