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To See The World Clearly: - Painting, The Camera Obscura And The Lens Of Spinoza, Paul Uhlmann
To See The World Clearly: - Painting, The Camera Obscura And The Lens Of Spinoza, Paul Uhlmann
Research outputs 2012
My practice-led PhD research project seeks to find ways to create immersive painting installations to invoke contemplation of immanence, interconnectedness and impermanence in the mind of the viewer. In this paper I will discuss the methodology of my practice-led research as it relates to the concept of sensation (Deleuze) in relation to the body and to painting. In addition to this I will outline ways in which Spinoza’s monist concept of ‘one substance’ has illuminated and influenced my thinking and work. Central to this concept is the notion that mind and matter are not two separate things but one thing. …