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Originally Posted by
celestino
* Thank you for your kind words, Carl! i had never heard of Caravaggio.
Also, my "i" completely understands your "i". Both our eyes see each other in the same way and we, all, will always share the same view no matter if we view it differently.;)
Buber, in 'I and Thou' wrote:
'There is no I as such but only the I of the basic word [pair] I-You and the I of the basic word [pair] I-It. When a man says I, he means one or the other.
What you, are saying, Celestino, is when you speak to me you are saying the basic word pair 'I-You' (or I and Thou) not 'I-It'.
Buber says (of one contemplating a tree):
But it can also happen, if will and grace are joined, that as I contemplate a tree I am drawn into a relation, and the tree ceases to be an it. The power of exclusiveness has seized me...Whatever belongs to the tree is included: its form and its mechanics, its colours and chemistry, its conversation with the stars - all this in its entirety'
On art, Buber says:
This is the eternal origin of art that a human being confronts a form that wants to become a work through him.
Here's a photo I took with my Rolleicord that I called 'Confronting the Form':