necessity is the mother of invention ...
abstraction [as a branch of phenomenology with painting being a by-product], begins to prepare us for understanding perceptual subtleties and changes - in this case vision ...
abstraction prepares us to adapt and delineate between: image identification, scale changes, and object placement in space - the same way perception of perspective was modified between prehistoric and high renaissance art, or even from medieval through renaissance; as understanding of spatial relationships, phenomena, and natural laws governing that consciousness became assimilated into civilization of the period ...
i believe we’re in the continuing process of evolving our visual acuity to distinguish the elements of what we now refer to as our sixth sense - abstract painting, at its best, prepares us for that transition ...
part of the condition during primitive painting and our development of perceptual skills was our inability to understand and articulate the things between things we recognized ...
i believe the problem prevails - who can deny those fleeting moments of seeing things that aren’t really there, or were there - but we lack the acuity to focus upon them, doubt our recollection, then deny seeing them in the first place ...
i doubt there’s as much space as we think there is ...
