Mutable | Tending to change In form or quality Imbue with an essence |
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n attractive front yard configuration, much of life is about appearance. Visual sensation and subsequent perceptional processing constitutes approximately ninety percent of the information input of an average human. Thus it is that creative activities like photography, which are exclusively operative in the visual domain, must expand personal awareness. Over time, as the realization of the ephemeral nature of reality becomes evident to an engaged practitioner, visual divergence is what will challenge assumptions. And the ability to move beyond assumptions is what transforms the ordinary and common place into the exquisite and exceptional.
“ Indeed, to some extent it has always been necessary and proper for man, in his thinking, to divide things up, if we tried to deal with the whole of reality at once, we would be swamped. However when this mode of thought is applied more broadly to man's notion of himself and the whole world in which he lives, (i.e. in his world-view) then man ceases to regard the resultant divisions as merely useful or convenient and begins to see and experience himself and this world as actually constituted of separately existing fragments. What is needed is a relativistic theory, to give up altogether the notion that the world is constituted of basic objects or building blocks. Rather one has to view the world in terms of universal flux of events and processes.” - David Bohm
