Category Archives: Perception

Artefact, Recursiveness, Focus

Posted on January 31, 2012 by Francois Lachance

Anne Carson in Eros, the bittersweet draws on the work of Eric Havelock postulating a shift in the Greek mind with the coming of literacy. She evokes this line of thought in the following terms: At the same time, a … Continue reading →

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A Few More From Miller

Posted on January 24, 2012 by Francois Lachance

George Miller. 30 (some odd) poems. Toronto: Three Tree Press, 1977. “Back to Back — LSD” […] A flower is a lesson in celestial geometry I smell its colour The flower and my vision of it cross-pollinate in an obscure … Continue reading →

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Putting and Retrieving

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Francois Lachance

This in response to a call issued in Humanist 30.757 hands on Willard, I want to add some remarks about the relation of craft to orchestration. You characterize Tim Ingold’s take on the implements of writing: But he also comes … Continue reading →

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Time Displacement and the Numinous

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Francois Lachance

A story counted by Gossamer Penwyche is recounted by Terry Boyle in Discover Ontario: Stories of the Province’s Unique People and Places. The story leads to a realization about temporal displacement. The experience: “Several hours had lapsed while I had … Continue reading →

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forces still at play

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Francois Lachance

I once experienced a group learning session that ended with an attentive silence which the teacher disrupted by an over eager closure. It spoilt the mood. It did get me thinking about how and where silence is appreciated. Months later … Continue reading →

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Old Words and Ancient Smells

Posted on December 25, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Robert Kelly on old words: “They store the power of long attention to things in the world” (introduction to Thomas Meyer The Umbrella of Aesculapius). Maybe this is a bit of what led him to those reflections Sun & wind … Continue reading →

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Unfolding of the Gendered Voice

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Francois Lachance

The time and space of listening. And the who. Excerpts from a letter to Joy Parr thanking her for a gift of music by Meredith Monk and Hildegard von Bingen (Monk and the Abbess by Musica Sacra) and musing on … Continue reading →

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Osmosis & Self

Posted on July 30, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Diffusion. The semi-transparent envelope is not merely an aesthetic metaphor: it is the perceptual envelope that constantly surrounds us, the fluid plane of demarcation between what is outside us and what is inside, between object and the brain’s sensation/interpretation of … Continue reading →

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Notes to Get Lost In and Find the Other

Posted on July 19, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Tony Hiss The Experience of Place on simultaneous perception We can experience any place because we’ve all received, as part of the structure of our attention, a mechanism that drinks in whatever it can from our surroundings. This underlying awareness … Continue reading →

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Minimalist Monuments

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Francois Lachance

Answer: Lawren Harris. Problem Statement: by way of John Berger on Magritte found in About Looking. Beginning with a few lines from the conclusion of Notes on Conceptualisms by Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman: This is the difference between Narcissus … Continue reading →

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