philosophy
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Every image is an abstraction, even a photograph. No picture ever captures the real thing itself; it only records a version of what once existed. When we take a photograph or paint a scene, we are not freezing reality but interpreting it. We shape it through light, perspective, time, and emotion. This simple truth may
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— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception Whatever we know, we know through the world that surrounds us. Knowledge is never detached from lived experience; it is always grounded in our embodied encounter with reality. The world is not a neutral container but the very condition of our existence. To see, to touch, to listen — these
Art Rabbithole 