The symbolism of the crow is found in nearly every culture around the world. Its spiritual meaning can be benevolent or mischievous, with every characteristic in between. Its black colour is at the core of the symbolism, alluding to the void and death. Voidness can be...
Thalassophobia is the fear of deep bodies of water, not of water itself but the fear of emptiness beneath the waves or being far from shore. This primal fear may be an inherent part of the psyche, a developed evolutionary response that imprinted itself over time....
Noema touches upon Gestalt Psychology. The artwork combines a woman’s profile with a bird’s (an Egret). Upon first perceiving the image, it is taken as a whole; beautiful, ambiguous, and strangely poetic. Then, as we investigate, we intellectualize the parts to see how they relate to...
The history of zero is fairly recent. Recent because zero wasn’t needed for the most part. Counting was important to civilization, but the idea of nothing wasn’t, in fact psychologically zero implied nothingness, a state that was generally feared by many cultures. In India however,...
Life isn’t perfect. There is strife, famine, natural disasters, greed and selfishness. People are prejudice and have misconceptions that affect their relationships. We are often tempted, prone to addiction, have bad tendencies that corrupt decisions and make for unhealthy choices. I’ll say it again, life isn’t perfect...
Science describes the world as a quantifiable object, logical, coherent, applicable to measurement and available to be modelled and verified. On the other hand, we know the world within a personal framework of experience, more than an ‘object’. This is because we experience things that are not...
The perfection of a circle The circle symbolizes spirituality, completeness, wholesomeness, and balance. It has come to represent totality, infinity and perfection. The circle feels deeply familiar and somehow representing life in general. However, a circle is an abstraction. Its ‘perfection’ is illusory. For 4000 years the...
"Ovis Cum Pastor" "Ovis cum pastor" is Latin for 'Sheep with Shepherd.' Sheep are significant throughout the bible. They are teaching tools. They signify people and their need for guidance, as a flock of sheep needs a shepherd. The man here where's a tab collar. He is a...
From the ancients demonstrating the precession of the equinoxes to astronomical machines probing the wonders of the universe, we are part of a legacy of human knowledge that has been evolving over thousands of years. And so we are charged with continuing this collective effort,...
"The bull" is one of the oldest and most noticeable constellations in the sky, with descriptions of Taurus going back as far as the early Bronze Age. The Taurus constellation is best known for its Hyades & Pleiades star clusters. The brightest stars of the Hyades...