https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/48982
Morning Glories – Suzuki Kiitsu – Early 19th Century
Our Eyes Upon the Horizon & Details – A Thought Piece
Second Sister’s Spouse – 06/28/21
…and of course, it is good to see the whole, as much as one can, to get the “big picture”, for as a culture, even perhaps as a nation, that is our bent, what we consider to be our inevitable horizon, the vision of our destiny, so to speak. There is some truth here, but only some. For to omit, overlook, and even disregard the details, we risk – no, guarantee – that our vision is faulty and blurred and more composed of what we want to see, and what we do not see. This curse of blindness, self-imposed and craved and even prayed for at times, is such that the horizon of our soul is self-created, an image of what we wish our world to be, yes, but worse, what we believe to be correct, and right, and essentially good about the image we have of ourselves. And this image is set grandly upon the horizon and worshiped, many times, as the only true deity we wish to worship – this image of ourselves – which we adore. And because it is what we have always wanted it to be, our own image, ourselves and the nation in our mind we believe in, we demand such belief in others. For if we only have our image on the horizon, and ignore the details, the details which would open our eyes perhaps to a much different horizon…
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