THE BISON CAMP
or
The Temple of the Reason
or
In Enlightenment We Trust
Vol 3
Spring 2018
The drawing represents our mind, its rational and irrational impulses, which are in ongoing battle with each other. The spatial structure of the temple is organized accordingly.
The grid, with white cubicles is our marvelous rational mind that tries to organize the mental process and understand the reality. With this grid, at the intersection of the “birds” stands her majesty - Free Will. While we do have a free will, it is not entirely independent from outer (social context) or inner process (consciousness, DNA). The external structure of the temple represents what we, humans, have achieved through our rational mind.
The first idea
The temple
Insertion into ground
The birds represent our unstable and mysterious consciousness, of which we know very little. Indeed, it is like a bird, fling into the sky free from terrestrial constrains. The shape of the birds is approximated as we only imprecisely know what consciousness is. When we attempt to reveal it we only can observe the projection of it onto our rational mind, which then rationalizes it through approximation. Those projection lines off “the birds” represent this process.
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