Category Archives: Perception

Imagine a clacking keyboard throughout the duration of reading this entry. From the archives and a review of Dianne Bos exhibit at Wynick/Tuck by Thomas Hirschman [“Sensory Deception: Two Shows Play Tricks with Sight and Sound” Now, Vol. 22, No. … Continue reading →

The analogy of the blind person orienting herself in space can have a bearing on the many ways our cognitive mapping works: by bumps and starts. I invite readers to make the leap to via this excerpt from Alexandra Horowitz … Continue reading →

Hand-brain connections at play? David Suzuki introduction to Pebbles to Computers: The Thread. Revealing typo appears in the context of filtering. The note of novelty induced by the typo “handwiring” suggests evolutionary connections. Like all other organisms, we have the … Continue reading →

A re-examination of the hero: Orpheus as inept in letting go. Of course, Orpheus was a musician, not a painter, and his music was the means through which he worked his seduction, expressed his sorrow, but also pleaded his case. … Continue reading →

On the types of exercises and games in his improv and music creation classes: Then you shuffle the roles and play again. People keep experiencing the game from different perspectives: sometimes watching it from the outside as a spectator, sometimes … Continue reading →

Steven Heighton uses the pretext of taking aim at screen devices to call for a renewed interest in the creative aspects of boredom. Whatever. The issue here is screen media. The issue is that staring into space—in that musing, semi-bored … Continue reading →

Charles Simic “The Gaze We Knew As A Child” in Dime-Store Alchemy: The Art of Joseph Cornell concludes with the following observation: The images Cornell has in his boxes are, however of the third kind [images we see with eyes … Continue reading →

First a little text to consider: Anthony Storr, in Music and the Mind, talks about the close link between hearing and emotions. He points out that hearing is much more closely related to emotions than vision is. If we see … Continue reading →