Emblems of Hidden Durations - Softcover

Wellman, Jerry

9780985811631: Emblems of Hidden Durations

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0985811633 ISBN 13: 9780985811631

Publisher: Axle Contemporary Press, 2013

Jerry Wellman, through drawings, essays, reveries, and poetry, explores concepts of death and deathlessness. An ongoing project since the passing of his brother, almost 35 years ago, the book is inspired by his investigations of Eastern thought, funerary architecture, poetry, and philosophy. The title for the book, Emblems of Hidden Duration, is directly inspired by the writing of Baruch Spinoza. Spinoza proposes a difference between eternity and durations. He suggests eternity as the place that exists outside time, and that durations exist as a series of overlapping and interconnected events. More recently quantum mechanics theorizes: Physical reality is a stack of events that exist as the ever-changing indefinable now. The book takes the form of an internal conversation with Wellman himself, at the time of his imagined death.

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About the Author:

Wellman has published several illustrated books, exhibited paintings throughout the United States, produced video art, received numerous awards of recognition, and most recently co-founded an alternative arts venue, Axle Contemporary Gallery. His interest in philosophy, poetics and expanded definitions of art is evident in all his work. Exploring and sharing that interest is central to his production as an artist. Currently he lives in Santa Fe with his wife and daughter.

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