Friday, March 27, 2009

Five Ecstatic Skins: Or, To Our Bodies Turn We Then*




Fig. 1. Tanatos Banionis Creative Group - Divine Wind, 2008


'[By] an aesthetic idea I mean that representation of the imagination which induces much thought, yet without the possibility of any definite thought whatever, i.e. concept, being adequate to it, and which language, consequently, can never get quite on level terms with or render completely intelligible. It is easily seen, that an aesthetic idea is the counterpart (pendant) of a rational idea, which, conversely, is a concept, to which no intuition (representation of the imagination) can be adequate.'

Immanuel Kant


* John Donne (The Ecstasy)