Publication of my essay in Epoche Magazine
My essay titled A disdain for the discrete: How art transcends logic and language published in the March 2018 issue of Epoché Magazine - and here is the link . Claude Lorrain, Landscape with Ruins, 1650 (NGA, Washington DC) In this essay I argue that art is able to open a new window on to reality only when art can transcend reason and the confines of language. I contend further that both logic and language have their limitations when used as tools for the creation of meaning and that art helps us overcome these inadequacies in the way it transcends — or even transgresses — the absolutes that underpin our “rational” view of the world. I believe too that the violation of the strictures of logic by art is also emblematic of art’s heightened awareness of certain unique features of reality — in particular, its dynamic and fluid nature — which are not normally readily visible to a mind tied to thinking in terms only of binary truth values.