What You See, Unseen

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the experience of interconnectedness.
Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-
1951) wrote something similar about the essence
of seeing in the idea of pure seeing; he argued the
difference between interpretation, which implies
a hypothesis and seeing as a state. 19 He suggested
that philosophy is the elimination of nonsense and
that aesthetics and the mystical are shown, not
said, because they are about one’s relationship to
the facts. In this way, art exploits and transcends
its own material bounds.
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According to Wittgenstein, works of art, in all their
forms are bound by an aesthetic that surpasses
the simple requirements of beauty. We must ask,
is that true? Is it beautiful? The object will speak
and reply if it is true. If it is true it will resonate with
us; it is therefore beautiful. This sense of beauty,
via the art object, is also transferred through the
object’s material aspects.
Consider the work of Tara Donovan: she gained
acclaim for her work entitled Haze, 2003, an