"Ontology means the effort to put Being into word, and to do so by passing through the question of how it stands with Being" - Heidegger, An Introduction to Metaphysics, p.48.
"...there is no space between drawer and drawing, between ourselves and the world, between practical involvement and theoretical detachment. The moment I call 'absorbed seeing' is not peculiar to drawing nor indeed more generally to art - its possibility is there in all activities, all experience... seeing comes before any experience..." -Dr Robert Clarke
"...imagine then, that the pencil breaks or an aspect of the drawing suddenly dissatisfies us. Now the drawing or pencil is apparent...being absorbed in practical activity, is disrupted. Heidegger calls this experience 'presence-to-hand'..." -Dr Robert Clarke
"...the ontological sketchbook represents a world of interconnections in which practices and their equipment take on significance because they are already validated for purposes and goals constitutive of presupposed understanding the world." Dr Robert Clarke
To view Dr Robert Clarkes work please visit: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluefunnel/
