This writing is an attempt to analyse the essay by Maurice Merleau-Ponty titled ‘Eye and Mind’ and direct some of the ideas towards an understanding of my own art.
My first consideration deals with the current scientific mindset which tends to objectify and reduce the experience of the world to a process of collection and analysis of data. This condition generates a ‘operationality’ which separates the inner self from the outside world creating a distinct relationship between the two realms.
In separating the inner self from the outside world, the subject attempts to ignore that the confines of the body extend into this outer world and vice versa. In reality, when I look at nature, I see myself in it as well. I see parts of my body which are attached and belong to the same world that I observe. When I paint, I use my hands which are as visible to my eyes as the landscape or a rose that I am painting. My body is both part of the vision which I observe and the maker of the vision which I am creating.
My body helps transform the ‘outer’ world into a painting by being ‘in’ it. The world. Not separate.
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