there is nothing in nature that is not in us
Whatever exists in nature, exists in us in the form of our awareness of its existence.
All creative activities of Mankind consist in the search for an expression of that awareness.
Linear Construction No 2 1950
(Variation No 1)
Perspex with nylon monofilament
The perceptible results of that creative search are the so-called fact-findings of science, the conceptions and ideas of philosophy, the inventions in technics and the images of the visual arts.
– Naum Gabo
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the awakened eye 