Day: January 28, 2014

  • Numina

    N^T^N ALEXANDER Illuminated Glass and Mixed Media on Canvas, 2013 In his Critique of Pure Reason, Kant distinguished between “Phenomena” objects as interpreted by human sensibility and understanding and “noumena” (objects as things-in-themselves, which humans cannot directly experience). The noumenal realm was equated with the world of ideas known to the philosophical mind, in contrast

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  • Powers of the Sphinx

    N^T^N ALEXANDER Illuminated Glass and Mixed Media on Board, 2010 “In philosophy, the hypercube or tesseract represents the inherent complexity of a two-dimensional surface, and the dynamic, structuralized potential of the fourth dimension; According to one theory, time is interpretable as the nth dimension in an nth-dimensional context; acquiring additional dimensions merely requires more complex

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