Numenon” and “Phenomenon” Part 3
In Art and Poetry
I wanted to go a bit closer to art in this part of the blog-series post.
One of the first things I’ve able to point at as useful tools are for reducing a mind full of phenomena is: Cubism. I love specially one image, the Rape of the Sabines, a picture of Pablo Picasso about an event in Roman history, but what impress me is not only the naked aggression, but that several angels are represented at the same time, so that the horse have visible face and visible butt the same time. Legs and arms of the woman is connected to the head. It’s a chaos, but the same time this quality to get closer to the Ding-An-Sich.
Another picture that puzzle many people are Rene Margritte’s “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” or “This is not a pipe”:
Was the painter right? Of course he was, this is just a painting of a pipe, not a pipe per se. Still people are puzzled. Because it’s not a pipe at all, is the most correct answer, since it’s simply a painting of a pipe, and thus hardly even a phenomenon made of one or more senses.
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The painting of Picasso managed to keep two sides or more of one side of an image. The pipe seem very 2-dimensional compared.
Surrealism though are perhaps one step through the subconsciousness to a real representation of inner phenomena and here a dream-journal might be good for surrealists. Surrealism can be seen as an attempt to access or represent the noumenal realm by bypassing rational consciousness through dreams and the subconscious. So through an hallucinatory world are there in many paintings of many surrealists like Dali and his burning giraffes and clocks melting like egg in the sun. Most likely Dali used dream-material. He seemed like a playful child trying to open a closed door of noumenal material and I’m not sure if the purely phenomenological or something deep, beyond my understanding.
August Strindberg «Räck hit en spruta med Buddhas morfin!»
Deeper in poetry there don’t seem to have been such a collision between
other things then rhymes. and are perhaps the short, symbolic and emotional words needed in short, elegant packets of text, that might make us leave the world of phenomena for a while. Perhaps mixed with things like mindfulness and meditation. The words, for example in Japan, where the death haiku poem was a very serious ritual, can pack much more into the words, if a mix of rhyme, and hopefully there won’t be so many of this blog-series.
