Essays
What Do We Find Beautiful?
A list of answers. Whether beauty is an objective or subjective reality is one of most controversial themes in the history of art and culture. Is beauty a special and measurable quality “out there”, or simply a twinkle in the “eye of the beholder”? Perhaps what we can all agree
Making Strangers With the World
The question I’m holding is how can we stop switching off automatically from everyday familiar contexts? How can we blaze our world up again?
The Man Who Pointed His Camera At Nothing For 100 Hours
For 10 full days, the Hubble was pointed to a patch of sky that Williams himself described as “indistinguishable spot in the sky”. It was a small keyhole perspective, only about 1/30th as wide as the full moon.
Looking Closely At Shadows
The more we notice the details, the more fascinating the shadows get.
Why We See The Clouds And Miss The Sky
What is nothing? Can it actually exist? And where does it come from? It’s murky metaphysical ground, to say the least.
