In the context of the Tuesday/Thursday summer writing group I participated in, I have done readings in philosophy, especially in phenomenology. More specifically, I have been reading essay translations of Edmund Husserl and others by Maurice Merleau-Ponty. Among the most interesting concepts to me is in relative to my spiritual and emotional practices in recent decades…which is that I continuously seek a “don’t know mind”. My readings in phenomenology bring me to the philosophical or intellectual aspect of the same.
As I understand it, based on Husserl’s method, which he referred to as epoché, an Ancient Greek term he modernized. He described it as a “bracketing” or as a suspension of thought, assumptions, or judgments to ultimately allow the mind to locate consciousness itself. (I think vs intellect…which we are so oriented towards.) One of my take-aways is a shifting in how I am conceiving of my PhD dissertation/exegesis/thesis.
To visualize or out-picture what I now understand regarding the “bigger picture” of interconnectedness of “my” philosophy, in relationship to “my” theory basis, in relationship to my own praxis or studio painting practice, in relationship to my specific “ChromaTheory: on Abstract Painting, Color & Inclusion”, I modeled a Venn diagram.
