9. “The
Enlarging gaze.
Of a child”
The significance & potential of the tiny, minor, seemingly
insignificant. Miniatures as portal as way of making vision
bigger wider in scope.
Seeing the
significant in the
small
15.
Story Telling
Is alive.
This is the most important thing of all things,
A story can always break into pieces while it sits
inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have
read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut
or caress, to a new truth.” {Andre Dubus}
17. Looking for deeper
layers of reality
One day it will have to
be officially admitted
that what we have
christened reality is an
even greater illusion
than the world of
dreams.” {Salvador
Dali}ı
18.
19.
20.
21.
22. “Beyond the age of
information
is the age of
choices.”
{designer charles eames in 1971}
23.
24. “Stories are the way we live. They are what our
friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion
and rage, their yearning and their cry against
injustice.” {Andre Dubas}
25.
26.
Story Telling
Is alive.
This is the most important thing of all things,
A story can always break into pieces while it sits
inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have
read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut
or caress, to a new truth.” {Andre Dubus}
27.
28. Your assumptions are your
windows on the world.
Scrub them off every
once in a while, or the
light won’t come in.
‘{Isaac Asimov}
29. We occupy different worlds and
behave differently with
different people, in different
moments, at different times and
different that world -
30.
31.
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33.
34.
35. “It is the absence of facts that frightens
people: the gap you open, into which they pour
their fears, fantasies, desires.”
― Hilary Mantel ‘Wolf Hall’
36.
37. “Books permit us to voyage through time,
to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The
library connects us with the insight and
knowledge, painfully extracted from
Nature, of the greatest minds that ever
were, with the best teachers, drawn from
the entire planet and from all our history,
to instruct us without tiring, and to
inspire us to make our own contribution to
the collective knowledge of the human
species. I think the health of our
civilization, the depth of our awareness
about the underpinnings of our culture
and our concern for the future can all be
tested by how well we support our
libraries.”ı
Carl Sagen ‘Cosmos’ı
38.
39.
40. Any fool can know. The
point is to understand.”
Einstein
41.
42.
43.
44.
45. The only true wisdom is in
knowing you know nothing.”
Socrates
46.
47. “The time will come when diligent
research over long periods will bring to
light things which now lie hidden. A
single lifetime, even though entirely
devoted to the sky, would not be enough
for the investigation of so vast a
subject... And so this knowledge will be
unfolded only through long successive
ages. There will come a time when our
descendants will be amazed that we
did not know things that are so plain
to them... Many discoveries are
reserved for ages still to come, when
memory of us will have been effaced.”ı
Seneca
51. “black & white
Flat Static
Odorless-
Far removed from any
reality that they knew”
{Anthropologist edmund carpenter 1950s}
52. …”at the desk a writer must try to be free of
prejudice, meanness of spirit, pettiness, and
hatred; strive to be a better human being than
the writer normally is, and to do this through
concentration on a single word, and then
another, and another. This is splendid work, as
worthy and demanding as any, and the will and
resilience to do it are good for the writer’s soul.
If the work is not published, or is published for
little money and less public attention, it remains
a spiritual, mental, and physical achievement;
and if, in public it is the widow’s mite, it is
also, like the widow, more blessed.
53.
Story Telling
Is alive.
This is the most important thing of all things,
A story can always break into pieces while it sits
inside a book on a shelf; and, decades after we have
read it even twenty times, it can open us up, by cut
or caress, to a new truth.” {Andre Dubus}
54. “Stories are the way we live. They are what our
friends tell us, in their pain and joy, their passion
and rage, their yearning and their cry against
injustice.” {Andre Dubas}
55. “I regret nothing. There have been
things I missed, but I ask no questions,
because I have loved it, such as it has
been, even the moments of emptiness,
even the unanswered-and that I loved
it, that is the unanswered in my
life.” {Ayn Rand}
56.
57.
58.
59.
60.
“The drawings come across as
fragments that are suggestive of a
world beyond, a world that does not
have to be explicitly recorded and is
in fact all the more “complete”
because it cannot be
completed” ı
{Michel Taussig on Field Sketches}ı
61.
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88.
89.
90. Florilegium
Preserving
that intangible
Immediate Flows of
Connection across
Disciplines
In 1970, French molecular
biologist noted similarity in
properties of ideas &
organisms- how they breed &
how they spread I
“Ideas have retained some of the properties
of organisms. Like them, they tend to
perpetuate their structure and to breed; they
too can fuse, recombine, segregate their
content.” ~ Jacques
91. Connecting Dots Across
Disciplines=
thinking up
New Combinations &
Cross-Pollination of Ideas
“in order for us to truly create and
contribute to the world, we have to be able to
connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate
ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine
and recombine these pieces and build new
castles.” {maria popova}
92.
93.
94.
95.
96. What is now proved
Was once Only imagined.
{William Blake}
