readings: berger's seker ahmet and the forest

ideas that engaged me: from reading berger’s book about looking
(republished article from new society)

seker ahmet and the forest, (pgs 86-93)

concept of a forest as:

• “a thing taking place in itself”
• “a being”
• “a symbol for reality”
• (a forest) lichtung/clearing “is the open for everything that is present and absent.”

heidegger’s “sense of thought as the coming-into-the-nearness of distance” as a reciprocal movement… the present, the now, i not a measurable unit of time, but the result of presence, of the existent actively presenting itself.”

“perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness”

how i can use this:

berger’s ideas tie into my other readings that perceive the “landscape as self.”
use in writing? i seem to be going that way...
apply to painting? think we all do anyway>>>is inevitable that our "filters" manifest in our work. filters = self

other:

this reading has a zen or eckhart tolle vibe to the being present/now concepts. not sure how conscious painters were back then of this ideology/mindset. although ahmet was from turkey and came to paris to learn painting does not mean his perceptions were asian>>>coulda been muslim or orthodox catholic. as i understand it there are no known writing from ahmet. not disagreeing with berger>>>just contemplating some of the numerous possible realities. like berger said "it is impossible for us to perceive a work in the context in which it was created." **our perceptions are colored by our "now."

** from berger's ways of seeing

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