ON SCIENCE

I am extremely intrigued by the idea of Science and Art going hand in hand. Being a photographer, its a constant recognition of the fact that science plays an intrical role in the process of creating art. Although to consider Science as an daily experience is a new means of viewing the interactions of people and their environment, at least it is for me. I really enjoy the metaphor that science is like breathing in ( taking the experiences of the outer world and interpreting them into laws or theories) and art is like breathing out (allowing the inner expression to manifest itself into the outer world). Also the fact that you stated about how at our College there is very little works of art being produced, this is very startling and also rings true on levels that you later elaborated on. The process in which artists under go while learning and perfecting their work often deals strictly with Science, that is, the experimentation of various techniques and materials that later develop into craft. The essential element that allows the philosophical aspect of critical analysis, which is craft ultimatly allows the viewer to differentiate the difference between good and bad art.

Issues of the Self

Recently I have been very interested in Buddhism and its view of the self in relation to scientific theories such as the string theory and the zero point field. Through lectures such as one's on eastern beliefs of existence the idea of the impermanent nature of physicality and the belief of the individual self as being an illusion, I have come to realize the dynamics of life in a more natural means, one in which the central focus of purpose is not the individual but more so the collective essence. This perspective drastically alters my preconceived notions of the thesis that all human activity is a combination of P.C.A.S. , it is very plausible therefore that the essence of the qualities P.C.A.S. are even more real than the human beings that express them in their actions. This Buddhist perspective is very appealing to me, although the Hindu perspective seems more grounded in traditional views of birth and rebirth in the continuum of a physical self. Either way you like to perceive the thesis through eastern views of the self, the qualities that embody human action (P.C.A.S.) seem more realistic and permanent than the distinction between permanent self in relation to an outer world or other individual permanent selves acting autonomously in an individualized physical outer world.