A&O – ART and HEALTH
. ART & ORGANISM EXPRESSIVE and RECEPTIVE ART and HEALTH It is often helpful to distinguish two principal ways in which we thing about art and the fundamental biological needs…
CONNECTIONS – The Dark Side
ART and ORGANISM THE DARK SIDE OF CONNECTIONS CONNECTIONS are central to all meaning and all change: they are a primary existential phenomenon on which our understanding (such as we…
Can We Welcome The Dark Mother
. ART and ORGANISM Can We Welcome the Dark Mother connections between the ephemeral and the eternal Praised be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and…
LONELINESS
ART and ORGANISM LONELINESS . They're sharing a drink they call loneliness But it's better than drinking alone. …
My Life as a Symbolist
Up the night of November 21 about 1am and not sleepy I got comfortable in my study and picked up the “read later” pile of magazines and web articles that…
Napping in the Redwoods
July 3, 2021 NAPPING in the Redwoods After puttering & sputtering all morning I was finally making progress on my presentation for IACEP-2021 Then I took a break, poked at…
The Red Blossoms
Summer road-tripping, mid 1960's. The Red Blossoms were visible as soon as we crested a rolling hill in the North Dakota countryside. A summer road trip meandering cross country…
A&O – COGNITION
ART & ORGANISM COGNITION Cognition involves patterns of neural activity, processing takes place through the propagation of activity via excitatory and inhibitory connections. Learning and memory arise primarily through the modification…
A&O READING: “WHY WRITE?” (Paris Review 2022)
ART & ORGANISM READING annotated and glossed WHY WRITE By Elisa Gabbert (July 6, 2022 The Paris Review) I encountered Joan Didion’s famous line about why…
A&O – ART FORMS and CULTURE
ART FORMS are venues for creative self-expression and as such are inhibited or facilitated by the culture in which an artist is embedded. Umwelt (an individual's sensory world) and socio-cultural embeddedness…